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ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Chemistry and Pharmacology of Fluorinated Drugs Approved by the FDA (2016-2022).

Ghulam Shabir, Aamer Saeed, Wajeeha Zahid, Fatima Naseer, Zainab Riaz, Nafeesa Khalil, Muneeba, Fernando Albericio

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Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Ghulam ShabirDepartment of Chemistry, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan.
Aamer SaeedDepartment of Chemistry, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-7112-9296
Wajeeha ZahidDepartment of Chemistry, Government Graduate College Toba Tek Singh, Punjab 36050, Pakistan.
Fatima NaseerDepartment of Chemistry, Government Graduate College Toba Tek Singh, Punjab 36050, Pakistan.
Zainab RiazDepartment of Chemistry, Government Graduate College Toba Tek Singh, Punjab 36050, Pakistan.
Nafeesa KhalilDepartment of Chemistry, Government Graduate College Toba Tek Singh, Punjab 36050, Pakistan.
MuneebaDepartment of Chemistry, Government Graduate College Toba Tek Singh, Punjab 36050, Pakistan.
Fernando AlbericioSchool of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-8946-0462

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fluorine is characterized by high electronegativity and small atomic size, which provide this molecule with the unique property of augmenting the potency, selectivity, metabolic stability, and pharmacokinetics of drugs. Fluorine (F) substitution has been extensively explored in drug research as a means of improving biological activity and enhancing chemical or metabolic stability. Selective F substitution onto a therapeutic or diagnostic drug candidate can enhance several pharmacokinetic and physicochemical properties such as metabolic stability and membrane permeation. The increased binding ability of fluorinated drug target proteins has also been reported in some cases. An emerging line of research on F substitution has been addressed by using

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diverse biological activitiesfluorinated drugsfluorinated oligonucleotidesradiolabeled fluoro-pharmaceuticals

Identifiers

PMID37631077
PMCPMC10458641

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