Cutting Edge Chemistry and its Impacts on Sustainable Development

Dear Colleagues,

Cutting-edge research in science, and especially in chemistry, aims to offer scientists an outline of the impact and interdisciplinary nature of chemistry today.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented toll on the way research is conducted worldwide; while Some research centers are slowly reopening and activities returning to normal again, many institutions remain closed. For research to be successful, it must be conducted under specific, normal circumstances and with all members of a research team being able to convene together—something that COVID-19 has made virtually impossible for near a year now. The focus of this Special Issue is sustainability in science, and the issues faced in research today. For example, a topic of particular interest today is pharmaceutical development schemes and the ability to develop and release new drugs that exhibit high potentiality and are environmentally friendly, and to do this as fast as possible.

Thus, drug discovery should go hand in hand with the substantial improvements in drug development and their impact on all scales of research and implementation. The process of drug delivery creates a plethora of questions about synthesis procedures and eventual process optimization in accordance with sustainability and green scenarios.

With this Special Issue, we want to bring together researchers from diverse fields of science to share ideas for cutting-edge chemistry research and how it can influence sustainability in science and in society. Contributions are welcome from all areas of chemistry, biology, material science, chemometrics, and the environmental sciences.

Original research and reviews are welcome.

Dr. Miroslava A. Nedyalkova
Dr. Julia Romanova
Dr. Giulia Mirabello
Guest Editors

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• drug design
• simulations
• clinical data treatment
• environment concepts
• machine learning
• design of experiments