From left: UChicago chemists Mark Levin, Jisoo Woo, and Tyler Pearson discuss techniques to swap nitrogen atoms in molecules—a change often made by drug discovery chemists. Credit: Julia Driscoll For ...

University of Chicago scientists are studying two possible ways to easily replace a carbon atom with a nitrogen atom in a molecule. Doing so would mean a huge breakthrough in pharmaceutical chemistry, ...

Chemists offer two new methods to develop a way to easily replace a carbon atom with a nitrogen atom in a molecule. The findings could make it easier to develop new drugs. For years, if you asked the ...

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Nitrogen dioxide is one of the most harmful air pollutants in urban and industrial regions, contributing to respiratory disease, smog formation, and climate forcing. As governments tighten air quality ...

For years, if you asked the people working to create new pharmaceutical drugs what they wished for, at the top of their lists would be a way to easily replace a carbon atom with a nitrogen atom in a ...