The discipline of medicinal chemistry requires the development of a wide scope of hard knowledge, though this does not in and of itself necessarily spell success for the practitioner.  Creativity in the scientific endeavor requires not only our ability to filter a large influx of data, but also the ability to utilize intuition or tacit knowledge.  Interestingly it was a chemist who pioneered the study of tacit knowledge, providing a framework for pushing back against scientific reductionism.  While capturing the essence of tacit knowledge is difficult at best, this talk will attempt to articulate key features of this skill set and how we might consider employing it in the medicinal chemistry setting.  <br/>

Role of tacit knowledge in medicinal chemistry

254th National Meeting (2017)

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