Combinatorial chemistry

Combinatorial chemistry attempts by combination and variation of different residues at a backbone a variety of molecules, from which those must be sought out with the desired or optimized properties. Robots and standardized response procedures are used for the synthesis mostly.

The preferred user 's medicinal chemistry and pharmacology. There are using the combinatorial chemistry new agents found or optimized. While an attempt was made in the early 1980s in the initial phase to produce the largest possible number of compounds, known as libraries, the trend went later to the synthesis of purified and well-characterized individual compounds. The transition to parallel synthesis was so fluent.