Medical Dictionary
combinatorial chemistry
noun com·bi·na·to·ri·al chemistry
\ˌkäm-bə-nə-ˈtōr-ē-əl-, kəm-ˌbī-nə-, -ˈtȯr-\
\ˌkäm-bə-nə-ˈtōr-ē-əl-, kəm-ˌbī-nə-, -ˈtȯr-\
Medical Definition of COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY
: a branch of applied chemistry concerned with the rapid synthesis and screening of large numbers of different but related chemical compounds generated from a mixture of known building blocks in order to recover new substances optimally suited for a specific function <using combinatorial chemistry to develop new pharmaceuticals and catalysts>
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