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Sustainable medicinal chemistry

Submissions now open

Deadline: 15 September 2025
Guest Editors: Maria Laura Bolognesi , University of Bologna
Daniele Castagnolo, University College London
Magnus Johansson, AstraZeneca

This Special Collection aims to capture this emerging trend by bringing together the latest developments in this area specifically related to medicinal chemistry, including (but not limited to) the following approaches:

  • green chemistry applied to medicinal chemistry 
  • use of continuous processes for synthesising hits, leads and drug candidates
  • use of enzymes and microorganism for synthesizing hits, leads and drug candidates
  • use of renewable resources for developing hits, leads and drug candidates
  • late-stage functionalisation methodologies for library assembly and SAR exploration
  • property-related metrics for ecotoxicology
  • design of biodegradable drugs
  • software for predicting biodegradability

Manuscripts should be submitted via the journal鈥檚 and the Editorial Office informed by email. Please add a 鈥渘ote to the editor鈥 in the submission form when you submit your manuscript to indicate that this is an open call submission for the themed collection. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check the suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed.

All manuscripts will be subject to the journal's usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be highlighted together in a dedicated web collection alongside an editorial, regardless of submission date, and there will be no delay in the publication of all accepted manuscripts into regular issues of 番茄社区 Medicinal Chemistry.

番茄社区 Medicinal Chemistry

Impact factor

3.6 (2024)

First decision time (all)

14 days

First decision time (peer)

32 days

Editor-in-chief

Mike Waring

Open access

Hybrid

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