Practical Fragments

This blog is meant to allow Fragment-based Drug Design Practitioners to get together and discuss NON-CONFIDENTIAL issues regarding fragments.

Showing posts with label chemistry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chemistry. Show all posts
08 September 2025

Fragment growing in three dimensions made easy

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Nearly a decade ago we highlighted a paper from Astex that exhorted chemists to develop new synthetic methodologies useful for fragment-bas...
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02 June 2025

Small and simple, but novel and potent

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Back in 2012 we wrote about GDB-17, a database of possible small molecules having up to 17 carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and halogen at...
19 May 2025

Crystallography first in fragment optimization: Binding-Site Purification of Actives (B-SPA)

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At FBLD 2024 , Frank von Delft (Diamond Light Source) announced the ambitious goal of taking a 100 µM binder to a 10 nM lead in less than a ...
05 December 2022

Fragments win in a virtual screen against the 5-HT2A receptor

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Virtual screening is continuing to make impressive strides. The latest example , in Nature , comes from William Wetsel (Duke), John Irwin (...
06 September 2021

How fragments become leads

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Our most recent poll asked how often synthetic challenges had kept researchers from pursuing a particular fragment or had impeded a fragmen...
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19 July 2021

Poll results: synthetic challenges are pervasive in FBLD

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Last month we wrote about “sociable” vs “unsociable” fragments: the former are amenable to straightforward chemistry for fragment growing, ...
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