Privileged Scaffolds in Drug Discovery is the most complete and up-to-date work in the area. Covering a wide range of privileged structures, it is a perfect reference for scientists involved in targeted drug development.

The editors recruited experts from several prestigious Chinese institutions to cover the areas of antiviral drugs, chalcone, pyrimidine, (benz)imidazoles, natural product-derived privileged scaffolds, N-Sulfonyl carboxamides, kinase inhibitors, antitumor molecules, antineurodegenerative drugs, triazoles, oxazolidinone, indole and indoline scaffolds, tigliane diterpenoids, peptide and peptide-based drugs, quassinoids, and others including pseudonatural products, macrocycles, stable peptides and peptidomimetics. The book also explores scaffolds in drug molecules approved in recent years.

Privileged Scaffolds in Drug Discovery is a complete reference for researchers in drug discovery and organic synthesis, in academic and corporate settings, who are investigating privileged structures upon which to base new drugs. Researchers in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology will also find the contents of this book valuable.

1. Thiazole, a privileged scaffold in new drug discovery 2. Chalcone: Diverse biological activities and structure-activity relationships 3. Privileged chalcone scaffolds in drug discovery 4. The N-sulfonyl carboxamide moiety as a privileged structure in approved drugs 5. Scaffolds in cytotoxic drugs and novel antitumor molecules interacting with nucleic acids 6. Triazoles: a privileged scaffold in drug design and novel drug discovery 7. Oxazolidinone scaffolds in drug discovery and development 8. Indole and indoline scaffolds in drug discovery 9. Cyanopyridine as a privileged scaffold in drug discovery 10. Indazole as privileged scaffold in drug discovery 11. (Benz)imidazoles: privileged scaffolds in medicinal chemistry 12. Tranylcypromine (TCP): a privileged scaffold for designing histone lysine demethylase 1 inhibitors 13. Applications of piperazine scaffold in drug design 14. Thiols as a privileged scaffold against metallo-ß-lactamases 15. Tetrahydro-ß-carboline scaffold in drug discovery 16. Benzoxaborole: a privileged scaffold for drug discovery 17. Privileged scaffolds in anti-diabetic drug discovery 18. Authentic HIV-1 integrase inhibitors for the treatment of HIV-1/AIDS 19. 2-Aminopyrimidine: a privileged scaffold in kinase drug discovery 20. Alzheimer's disease therapeutics: current strategies and future directions 21. Sulfonyl fluorides as warheads in drug discovery 22. a,ß-Bifunctionalized carbonyl compounds as privileged motifs in drug discovery and their synthetic protocols 23. Diarylpyrimidines and related analogs as antiviral agents 24. Organic synthetic methodology-based new scaffold in drug discovery 25. Natural resource of anti-human immunodeficiency virus leading compounds: tigliane diterpenoids 26. Biological phenethyl glycosides from plants 27. Triterpenoids and saponins in drug discovery 28. Casbene-derived diterpenoids 29. Quassinoids: phytochemistry and antitumor prospect 30. Structural diversity, biosynthesis, and biological functions of meroterpenoids from microbial metabolites 31. Glucocorticoid compounds in drug discovery by targeting glucocorticoid receptor protein 32. Peptide and peptide-based drugs 33. Stapled peptides for new drug discovery 34. Current status and trends in research and development of polypeptide drugs 35. Unique opportunities of metal scaffolds in drug design 36. N-Heterocyclic carbene as privileged scaffold in medicinal inorganic chemistry 37. Selenium-containing heterocycles 38. Computational methods for scaffold hopping