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03.26
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2022
Product News | Three Major Classifications of Aliphatic Hydrocarbons Mar.26.2022

Product News | Three Major Classifications of Aliphatic Hydrocarbons

Hydrocarbons, any class of organic compounds consisting only of the elements carbon (C) and hydrogen (H). The carbon atoms are joined together to form the framework of the compound, and the hydrogen atoms are attached to them in many different configurations. Hydrocarbons are the main components of oil and natural gas.   Many hydrocarbons are found in nature. In addition to making up fossil fuels, they are found in trees and plants, for example, in the form of pigments called carotenoids in carrots and green leaves. More than 98% of natural crude rubber is a hydrocarbon polymer, a chain-like molecule consisting of many linked units. The structure and chemical properties of individual hydrocarbons depend greatly on the type of chemical bonds that hold the atoms of their constituent molecules together.   Aliphatic hydrocarbons are divided into three main groups based on the type of bonds they contain: alkanes, alkenes and alkynes. Alkanes have only single bonds, alkenes contain carbon-carbon double bonds, and alkynes contain carbon-carbon triple bonds. Aromatic hydrocarbons are those that are more stable than their Lewis structure would suggest; that is, they have "special stability. They are classified as either arenes, which contain a benzene ring as a structural unit, or non-benzene aromatic hydrocarbons, which have special stability but lack a benzene ring as a structural unit.   Isopropenoxytrimethylsilane, CAS:1833-53-0     This classification of hydrocarbons helps to relate structural features to properties, but it is not necessary to assign specific substances to a single category. In fact, a molecule usually contains two or more structural units characteristic of the hydrocarbon group. For example, a molecule that contains both a carbon-carbon triple bond and a benzene ring will exhibit some of the properties of an alkyne and the properties of an aromatic hydrocarbon.     Alkanes Alkanes are hydrocarbons in which all bonds are single bonds and whose molecular formulae satisfy the general expression C n H 2 n + 2 (where n is an integer). The carbon is s p 3 hybridized and each C-C and C-H bond is a σ-bond. Methane (CH 4), ethane (C 2 H 6 ), and propane (C 3 H 8 ) are the first three members of the series in increasing order of carbon atom number.   2-ethoxy-2-oxoacetonitrile, CAS:623-49-4   Cycloalkanes Countless organic compounds are known in which a series of carbon atoms are not joined in a chain but closed to form a ring. A saturated hydrocarbon containing a ring is called a cycloalkane. The general formula is C n H 2 n (n is an integer greater than 2), and they have two fewer hydrogen atoms than alkanes with the same number of carbon atoms. Cyclopropane (C 3 H 6 ) is the smallest cyclic alkane.     Olefins and alkynes Olefins (also called olefins) and alkynes (also called acetylenes) belong to the group of unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbons. Olefins are hydrocarbons containing carbon-carbon double bonds, while alkynes have carbon-carbon triple bonds. Olefins are characterized by the general formula C n H 2 n and alkynes are characterized by C n H 2 n - 2. Ethylene (C 2 H 4 ) is the simplest olefin and acetylene (C 2 H 2 ) is the simplest alkyne.       Hydrocarbons are the main components of oil and natural gas, and they are used as fuels and lubricants and as raw materials for the production of plastics, fibers, rubber, solvents, explosives, and industrial chemicals that are important raw materials in our lives.   To buy the raw materials and get more info about APIs, please contact Chemenu.

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03.07
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2022
Company Events | The 3rd Shanghai New Drug Conference Mar.07.2022

Company Events | The 3rd Shanghai New Drug Conference

New drug research and development is very difficult, and there is a saying that "it takes an average of ten years and one billion dollars to develop a new drug". Traditional R&D is complicated and costs continue to rise.

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02.25
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2022
Product News | Advantages of PROTAC Technology and PROTAC Linker Feb.25.2022

Product News | Advantages of PROTAC Technology and PROTAC Linker

  In recent years, global drug sales trends show that biologics have started to take off, while small molecule drugs are declining, and there is an urgent need to introduce revolutionary new technologies for small molecule drug development. With the continuous development and improvement of PROTAC technology, it has gone from unrecognized to highly sought-after, and has now gained the favor of many international pharmaceutical giants.       PROTAC Technology Protein Degradation Targeted Chimeras (PROTAC) is a technology that can be said to have its roots in the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The degradation or intervention of disease-causing proteins has become one of the most effective disease treatment strategies available. Since the human genome was decoded, researchers have been trying to target the thousands of proteins that cause disease. It is estimated that only 10% of proteins can be regulated by small molecules, 10% of proteins that can be regulated by biomolecules are on the cell surface, and up to 80% of proteins cannot be regulated by existing drugs. Targeted protein degradation drugs seek to engineer small molecules into a new class of drugs, where traditional small molecules act by blocking the function of proteins, while targeted protein degradation agents act by delivering these proteins into the proteasome where they are completely degraded.   Propargyl-PEG2-OH,  CAS:7218-43-1   Research Progress By the end of 2021, about a dozen PROTACs are in clinical development worldwide, and there are about 110 programs in preclinical development. In the whole development field, some R&D startups have gained the attention of global large pharmaceutical companies such as Roche, Sanofi, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Pfizer and Gilead, and are collaborating on protein degradation therapies; meanwhile, domestic companies are also actively involved in the development, showing a booming trend.   PROTAC Technical Advantages PROTAC largely combines the advantages of small molecule compounds and small molecule nucleic acids. PROTAC theoretically requires only a catalytic amount of drug and can also selectively degrade different proteins expressed in the same gene after protein expression and modification, so there are certain theoretical advantages.   Fmoc-amino-PEG3-CH2COOH,  CAS:139338-72-0     Disadvantages of PROTAC technology These drugs are dual-target drugs, so their molecular weight, molecular rigidity, and water solubility are not ideal, so oral absorption and transmembrane properties are poor, and PROTAC molecules are usually very large, and PK is a major obstacle. Overall, PK remains a major barrier to drug formation for most small PROTAC molecules. Chemical synthesis is also much more difficult. Off-target toxicity should also be one of the biggest concerns. PROTAC, as more thorough target protein degraders, may accidentally injure other off-target proteins. Even if it is a previously validated target, whether it will bring more serious toxicity in the future needs to be closely monitored in clinical trials.       CHEMENU, a provider of PROTAC-linker bioactivity assay solutions, offers you the most professional solutions to help you accelerate your PROTAC development.    

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02.11
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2022
Product News | Application of Piperidine in Drug Molecular Design Feb.11.2022

Product News | Application of Piperidine in Drug Molecular Design

Piperidine is a saturated heterocyclic secondary amine that is an important pharmacodynamic group as well as a dominant backbone with a variety of biological activities, such as antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antimalarial, general anesthetic, antidepressant, antioxidant, antiepileptic, antitumor, anticonvulsant, and antihyperlipidemic. Like many nitrogen-containing groups, piperidine is able to form additional interactions with targets, can easily cross cell membranes, solve drug resistance problems, can increase the water solubility of drug molecules, and is the most common group in drug molecule design.   The azepidine ring is one of the most important structural components in drugs. An analysis of the US FDA database of approved drugs shows that 59% of unique small molecule drugs contain nitrogen heterocycles. Among the most prevalent nitrogen ring systems, the drugs containing piperidine rings were the most abundant, followed by pyridine and piperazine.       Marketed drugs A number of small molecule drugs that have been approved for marketing in recent years also contain piperidine rings. For example, Rimegepant is a calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptor antagonist used in the acute treatment of migraine in adults. Revefenacin is an inhaled muscarinic receptor antagonist, which was launched in the United States in 2018 for the maintenance treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Lasmiditan succinate is an oral 5-HT1F receptor agonist and is a class of neurologically acting anti-migraine drugs (NAAMA). Dacomitib, a pan-human epidermal growth factor kinase inhibitor, was first marketed in the United States in 2018 as a first-line oral treatment for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with EGFR exon 19 deletion or 21 L858R exon substitution mutations.     Drug structure optimization Many of the drugs under development also contain piperidine rings as pharmacodynamic groups that play an important role in enhancing the interaction with the target and improving the pharmacokinetic properties.     1. piperidine ring increases the water solubility of the drug In addition to being part of the drug's pharmacodynamic group, piperidines have been used to increase the water solubility of the drug. Since the pKa of piperidine itself is 11.22, the pKa of n-alkylated piperidine is about 9.5. Installing piperidine rings has been routinely used to increase the water solubility of drugs. For example, 4-aminoquinazoline 46 is a potent kinase insertion domain receptor (KDR) inhibitor but has poor solubility (0.7 μM). A basic piperidine ring was installed on the side chain to replace the triazole, which resulted in a 500-fold increase in solubility (330 μM) at pH 7.4 (physiological acidity).   2. Piperidine ring solves the problem of drug resistance Pgp (permeability glycoprotein) is the most common drug efflux transport protein, which is often overexpressed in tumor cells and is one of the causes of multidrug resistance. Half of the marketed drugs are Pgp substrates. One strategy to address the Pgp problem is to improve the log P of the drug to reduce penetration into the lipid bilayer. The tetracyclic compound48 is a chemotherapeutic drug that has resulted in cytotoxic resistance due to its use as a Pgp substrate.48 The Mannich reaction of 48 was obtained with a modified 3-aminomethylpiperidine derivative.49 This structural change gives the piperidine compound activity against tumor cells.       CHEMENU provides a wide variety of organic compounds and offers exclusive development for advanced intermediates. We manufacture building blocks, intermediates and novel compounds.Please click the button to get in touch with us.  

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01.19
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2022
Product News | Nucleoside Drugs and APIs: for the Teatment of Hepatitis B Jan.19.2022

Product News | Nucleoside Drugs and APIs: for the Teatment of Hepatitis B

The nucleoside drugs has been instrumental in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B. In the past two decades, research has continued to develop and nucleoside analogues have emerged, and there are now five nucleoside analogues, including lamivudine, adefovir, tipifovir, entecavir and tenofovir, and people have gained a deeper understanding and more experience in the antiviral treatment of hepatitis B. With the end of the protection period of various original drugs, the research and development of generic drugs in China has entered a brand new stage, and clinicians and patients have more choices compared with the past.   CHEMENU is a manufacturer of nucleoside and nucleotide pharmaceutical ingredients, and we have various intermediates for sale to provide basic materials for the research of nucleoside drugs in the world. Read on to learn more about how nucleosides are therapeutic.         The importance of treatment Antiviral treatment for chronic hepatitis B is a global consensus. Although hepatitis B virus does not directly destroy liver cells, liver cells are the host site of hepatitis B virus, and once the body's immune system recognizes hepatitis B virus, an immune-mediated response is bound to occur, causing liver cell damage, abnormal liver function, and even cirrhosis, liver failure, and possibly liver cancer. Therefore, various guidelines from around the world emphasize the necessity and importance of antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis B.   There are two major categories of clinically applied anti-hepatitis B virus drugs, one is nucleoside analogues and the other is a-interferon, the latter has a tendency to gradually decrease in clinical application because of the large side effects and inconvenient administration, and the more common application is nucleoside analogues.     2'-O-(2-Methoxyethyl)guanosine CAS:473278-54-5     Nucleoside drug mechanism A nucleoside analogue is a nucleoside whose structure has been artificially modified, and this modification is usually performed on pentoses. The bases corresponding to lamivudine, telbivudine and entecavir are cytosine, thymine and guanine, respectively, and the bases corresponding to adefovir and tenofovir are both adenine. The antiviral mechanism of nucleoside analogues is to block the replication of virus by inhibiting the activity of HBV DNA polymerase. Because of the high similarity between the nucleoside structure of the drug and the viral polymerase, they can competitively bind to the viral polymerase, thus reducing the enzyme activity and terminating the extension of the viral DNA chain.     Rational selection of drugs The guidelines for the prevention and treatment of hepatitis B developed by the American College of Hepatology, the European College of Hepatology and the Asia Pacific Society of Hepatology all put forward the concept of "first-line drugs", i.e., first-line drugs should be preferred in antiviral therapy, and the recommended first-line drugs are entecavir, tenofovir and pegylated interferon.   People should put safety and efficacy in the first place when choosing drugs, and be guided by guidelines, taking into account price, health insurance and accessibility of drugs. In terms of drug safety, the focus should be on side effects and teratogenicity. China has conducted quality consistency evaluation of approved generic drugs in batches according to the principle of consistent quality and efficacy with the original drug, which provides new help for our drug selection.     Antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis B is the key to treatment, and nucleoside analogues are effective antiviral drugs. Please contact CHEMENU to get more products and the quote.  

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01.13
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2022
Company Events | 2022 LinkChem Annual Event: Innovation-driven Bright Future Jan.13.2022

Company Events | 2022 LinkChem Annual Event: Innovation-driven Bright Future

Chemenu, founded in 2009, provides a wide variety of organic compounds and offers exclusive development for advanced intermediates. We manufacture building blocks, intermediates and novel compounds.   Our goal is to support research projects for pharmaceutical and biotech companies, drug discovery centers, academic institutions and other research organizations worldwide.         Part of the Linkchem Group, Chemenu can also supply CRO, CMO, CDMO services for R&D, process and commercial production. We are proud to be a reliable partner for our clients all over the world.       On the occasion of New Year's Day 2022, our company held a grand annual meeting ceremony. The auditorium was beautifully decorated with flashing lights.               We held an award ceremony. Partners with outstanding achievements in 2021 were appreciated, including contribution awards and team awards, and we wished our employees to continue their efforts in the coming year.         At the end of the annual meeting, we had a talent show session. Singing, dancing, drama, everyone enjoyed having fun.         Chemenu will keep on going and do our best to research new products and serve our customers.

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01.05
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2022
Product News | What Are Characteristics of Pesticide Intermediates? Jan.05.2022

Product News | What Are Characteristics of Pesticide Intermediates?

Intermediates are a very important fine chemical product, essentially a class of "semi-finished products", which are intermediate products for the production of certain products. It can save cost and is widely used in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, coatings, dyes and fragrances. In the pharmaceutical field, intermediates are an important link in the pharmaceutical industry chain, and today, CHENENU mainly talk about pesticide intermediates.   What is Pesticide Pesticides are chemical synthetics or mixtures of one substance or several substances composed of biological or other natural substances and their preparations used to prevent, destroy or control agricultural, forest, disease, insect, grass and other pests and purposefully regulate the growth of plants and insects. Pyrazole substances are common here. Broadly speaking, pesticides are divided into crop protection pesticides and non-crop protection pesticides. Crop protection pesticides are mainly divided into herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and plant growth regulators, etc., which are mainly used for agricultural protection; non-crop protection pesticides mainly include rodenticides, insect repellents, sanitary mosquito supplies, etc.       Synthesis Process The synthesis of pharmaceutical intermediates is generally carried out in the reactor, and the generated intermediates should be separated and purified, which is usually achieved through extraction technology. And chloroform extraction of pesticide intermediates is a common operating unit in chemical enterprises, and the traditional operating process generally uses distillation tower operation. This operation process is complex, with low extraction efficiency and high power consumption, so most enterprises began to make technical changes to choose a more efficient process for the operation. Solvent extraction method began to become the main operating unit of the extraction section in the chemical industry. This method is simple to operate, with high extraction efficiency and cheap and easy to obtain extraction agent, while the extraction agent can be recycled, effectively saving the comprehensive input cost.   4-Methyl-L-phenylalanine   The Role of Intermediates The pesticide industry is at the end of the chemical industry chain and belongs to the fine chemical industry. Under the contradiction of global population growth and decreasing arable land, the massive use of pesticides to increase the yield per unit area is an important way to solve the food problem. Different insecticides require different intermediates in the production process. The products resulting from the processing of agricultural raw materials are also intermediates, which can be understood as synergists, also known as organic intermediates. Initially, they are intermediates produced in the process of synthesizing chemical products such as fragrances, dyes, resins, drugs, plasticizers, rubber accelerators, etc. from coal tar or petroleum products.       Pesticides are important production materials in agricultural production and play an extremely important role in controlling pests, diseases and weeds, stabilizing and improving crop yields. We provide custom synthesis/manufacturing including multi-step organic synthesis, process development, pilot and commercial manufacturing, and CMC services. Please contact us if you need to buy them.

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12.17
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2021
Product News | The CDMO Demand behind the ADC Drug Boom Dec.17.2021

Product News | The CDMO Demand behind the ADC Drug Boom

IUPAC Name:2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl 2-iodoacetate

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12.02
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2021
Product News | The Importance of Steroid Hormones in the API Industry Dec.02.2021

Product News | The Importance of Steroid Hormones in the API Industry

Since the 1990s, the sales of steroid hormone drugs in the international market have been increasing at a rate of 10%~15% per year. At present, steroid drugs are the second largest class of chemical drugs after antibiotics, and China has taken the development of new resources of steroid hormone drugs as one of the directions and priorities of the recent development of the pharmaceutical industry. The export of hormone APIs and intermediates has become an important variety of Chinese APIs to the world.

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