Tool flags ‘lurking menace’ isomers before they become an expensive problem for drug developers

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Open-source workflow developed at AstraZeneca screens drug candidates for atropisomerism

Researchers at AstraZeneca in the UK have developed a computational workflow to predict if a compound will exhibit atropisomerism,1 an exotic form of chirality that can complicate drug development. The company has already incorporated the tool into its internal workflows.