ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 in the field of medicinal chemistry

Medicinal chemistry

Medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry are disciplines at the intersection of chemistry, especially synthetic organic chemistry, and pharmacology and various other biological specialties, where it is involved with design, chemical synthesis and development for market of pharmaceutical...

. Founded in 2009, this online journal was published monthly by the American Chemical Society

American Chemical Society

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 in 2010 and then bi-monthly in 2011.

The Editor-in-Chief is Dennis C. Liotta

Dennis C. Liotta

Dennis Liotta is a Chemistry professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.Liotta's fields of research are organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry. Along with Dr. Raymond F. Schinazi and Dr...

 (Emory University

Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...

, Atlanta, Georgia, USA).

The journal welcomes short articles ("letters") is diverse areas of scientific study that are relevant to the field of medicinal chemistry.