All articles tagged with #chemical discovery
Chemists have developed a novel method to control the molecular 'handedness' of compounds crucial for medicines like breast cancer treatments, potentially leading to more effective drugs with fewer side effects, by using a simple chemical tweak to switch the configuration of complex molecules such as Tamoxifen.
The University of Amsterdam has developed an autonomous chemical synthesis robot called RoboChem, which integrates AI-driven machine learning to accelerate chemical discovery. The benchtop device outperforms human chemists in speed, accuracy, and ingenuity, significantly accelerating the synthesis of molecules for pharmaceutical and other applications. RoboChem operates autonomously, optimizing synthesis and providing settings for scale-up, and has shown impressive results in replicating previous research. Its generation of high-quality data and ability to record "negative" data make it a breakthrough in chemistry with AI.