LOUGHBOROUGH, Leicestershire, UK (June 8th, 2010) – Fisher Scientific, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., today announced the launch of its new Organics Handbook. For the first time, users can conveniently access both Acros Organics and Maybridge products in one combined location, making this the ideal reference resource for organic chemists.

The Acros Organics and Maybridge ranges complement one another, perfectly. Acros Organics offers a wide variety of commodities for the organic, medicinal, analytical and biochemist. The Maybridge selection of heterocyclic building blocks and reactive intermediates is unparalleled and plays an enormous part in accelerating user’s research programmes.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Accelerates Drug Discovery Process with New Maybridge Quick2Lead™ Compound Kits

Fast, simple and convenient building block kits advance hit-to-lead programmes

TINTAGEL, UK (17 March 2009) – Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, announced today that it has introduced a novel tool to accelerate hit-to-lead programmes in the drug discovery process. Its Maybridge Quick2Lead™ Compound Kits are designed to save time and money by enabling rapid compound library synthesis around bioactive “hits” emerging from screening assays. The kits are made up of pre-weighed, diverse building block selections, facilitating rapid capture of structure-activity (SAR) data from the closely related structural analogues within the library.

Quick2Lead Compound Kits are available as five functionality-based kits, with each one containing 48 carefully selected compounds. This enables the exploration of a wide area of chemical space to maximise credible SAR data acquisition for the successful conversion of an initial hit into a genuine, optimisable lead. Since these compounds are all pre-weighed, the kits are ready to use by simply adding solvent and transferring straight to a synthesiser.

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