Inorganic fragment library ready to help drug discoverers reach neglected regions of chemical space

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A new approach to fragment-based drug design

Researchers in the US and Germany have developed a metallofragment library for fragment-based drug discovery. As the first of its kind, this library could help medicinal chemists access drug leads with underexplored three-dimensional shapes that are more likely to interact with biological targets.