Chemists reveal one-step 'alkyl swap' that rewrites key amines for drug discovery

For more than a century, chemists have been building complex molecules step by step—bond by bond, atom by atom.

But what if, instead of painstakingly reassembling molecules, they could be directly "rewritten"?

This is exactly what a research team led by organic chemist Nuno Maulide from the University of Vienna has now achieved. ...