The synthesis and subsequent functionalisation of amides have emerged as pivotal areas in modern synthetic chemistry, enabling the direct conversion of these otherwise inert functional groups into ...

Amides are among the most ubiquitous functional groups in organic chemistry, forming the backbone of peptides and playing a vital role in pharmaceutical, synthetic and materials chemistry. Their ...

A pair of copper catalysts can create chiral amides in a new, light-driven process, offering a useful alternative to the standard method for making these staples of medicinal chemistry (Nature 2021, ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. An extrusion-based, solvent-free method was developed for the synthesis of amides and ...

Department of Chemistry, National Chung Hsing University, 145 Xingda Rd., South Dist., Taichung City 402202, Taiwan Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Huw University,101 Section 2, Kuang Fu Road, ...

Commercial-scale amide formation and an improved process route for a tetracycline derivative are some recent developments in API synthesis. Process chemists in the fine-chemicals and pharmaceutical ...

Researchers at the Biocatalysis group led by Dr Francesco Mutti at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (University of Amsterdam) have developed a novel use of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) ...

Chemists from the Higher School of Economics and the N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed a new synthesis method for amides, enabling ...

Novel, atom-efficient routes to amides from esters and carboxylic acids for more sustainable manufacturing. It is well known that amide-formation chemistry can be inefficient and warrants further ...

Amide Technologies has raised $16.5 million in venture capital to help commercialize its peptide production process. The process was developed from 2011 to 2017 in the lab of the Massachusetts ...