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A new way to replace carbon with nitrogen atoms could lead to better medicines
Source: Phys.org · Published

When drugmakers want to improve on compounds they have already created, they can replace a carbon atom with a nitrogen atom. While effective, the techniques they use to perform this chemical swap,…
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