Combinatorial chemistry facts for kids

Combinatorial chemistry is a branch of chemistry that creates a large number of different compounds using standardized reactions. Very often robots are used for synthesis. After synthesis, the compounds with the desired properties are kept. The main use for the procedure is Medicinal chemistry and pharmacology.

Images for kids

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  Peptides forming in cycles 3 and 4

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  Flow diagram of the split-mix combinatorial synthesis

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  Recursive deconvolution. Blue, yellow and red circles: amino acids, Green circle: solid support

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  Positional scanning. Full trimer peptide library made from 3 amino acids and its 9 sublibraries. The first row shows the coupling positions

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  A 27 member tripeptide full library and the three omission libraries. The color circles are amino acids

See also

In Spanish: Química combinacional para niños