IQTC Seminar: Julian Fuchs
Optimizing Molecular Conformations and Interactions for Drug Design
Friday March 22nd 2024, 13:00h
Aula Magna at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences
In collaboration with the Institut de Biomedicina (IBUB)
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Computational chemistry holds promise to speed up drug discovery via stringent prioritization of most promising candidate compounds in silico. In my talk I will discuss how computational chemistry may be applied to identify conformational preferences aiming to optimize steric complementarity between receptor and ligand. Additionally, I will present a quantum mechanics approach exploring electronics in pi-pi stacking interactions.