Six chemists spent long nights paging through piles of dusty chemistry journals in the Monsanto library to see if anyone had invented a COX-2 inhibitor without realizing it.
Weinberg and a group of 12 scientists from Dow and Symyx, some steeped in arcane specialties like organometallic chemistry, assembled a diverse array of molecules and metals plucked from Symyx's library of more than 5, 000 catalyst candidates.