The universe does not give up it's secrets easily so searching for the perfect molecule is riddled with failures and partial successes. This presents a challenge that drug hunters from all over the world take up with a passion.
The structures for the 2019 approvals have been collected in a single presentation.
“Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes; yet they are usually left unchronicled.” – WILLIAM RAMSAY