Medicinal chemistry of small bioactive molecules and their interactions with protein targets Bio-organic chemistry & molecular toxicology of highly reactive aldehydes Application of NMR spectroscopy for the determination of molecular structure, conformation and dynamics of small organic molecules and protein-small molecule complexes Natural products chemistry.

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