Question

"ADME" is a list of facets of these molecules whose delivery is modeled in pharmacokinetics. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this broad class of medicinal molecules studied in pharmacology.
ANSWER: drugs [or pharmaceuticals]
[10m] Transdermal delivery can be facilitated by this polar aprotic solvent that differs from acetone by having sulfur as its central atom. When deuterated, this non-chloroform compound with a four-letter name is a common NMR solvent.
ANSWER: DMSO [or dimethyl sulfoxide]
[10h] Because diffusion of DMSO through the skin creates a garlic taste for patients, its action lacks this desirable property of drugs. Reactions with this property neither interfere with, nor are affected by, other reactions occurring in the same time and place in vivo.
ANSWER: bio·orthogonality [prompt on orthogonality]
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