Because the molecular recognition properties of crown ethers mimic the selective molecular transport properties of biological proteins, a new understanding of pharmaceutical function has become ...

Traditionally, chemists make ethers using the Williamson synthesis ... “I think this is going to be something that pharmaceutical companies and medicinal chemists are going to pick up and ...

Taking inspiration from enzymes, chemists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed a catalyst to simplify the synthesis of ethers, key functional components of many drugs ...