Gangtok, April 8 -- A team led by Prof. Dr. Bhaskar Chakraborty of Sikkim Government College has pioneered a solvent-free, ball-milling synthesis of fluorinated dipeptides - molecules showing early but striking anticancer potential - in a dual paper published in one of chemistry's most prestigious indexed journals.

In a landmark pair of research papers published just days ago in the Indian Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry - a journal indexed in both Scopus (Elsevier) and the Web of Science (WOS) - chemists from a government college in the Himalayan state of Sikkim have unveiled a novel, environmentally conscious approach to synthesising fluorinated compounds that could lay the groundwork for a new generation of anticancer medicines.

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