Are medicinal chemists taking it too easy?

In medicinal chemistry, we have now reached a state where millions of building blocks have previously been engineered and can now be used in molecular design and synthesis. In addition to the increase in the number of new amines, boronic acids have been another fast-expanding reagent class since the introduction of the Suzuki coupling method. And if we can get our work done via such easy reactions – plenty of experience in doing the reactions, relatively easy purifications, existing scaleup expertise, and so on – then why shouldn’t we?

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