The phrase "small compounds" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something made up of smaller pieces combined together to form a single unit. For example: "The chemist studied the small compounds created from combining two different elements."
American spy agencies believe that Qaeda's leaders have established a haven in Pakistan, where they have set up small compounds to train operatives for attacks on Western targets.
No American had visited this mountain-ringed town recently, residents said today, until early Thursday, when helicopters dangling Humvees descended from the sky and spilled shouting, shooting Special Operations forces into two small compounds, a mile and a half apart.
We previously outlined a method of matching HSQC spectra of small compounds motivated by evolutionary optimization [8, 9].
Finding information about annotated chemical reactions for drugs and small compounds is a crucial step for pharmaceutical industries.
Recently, small compounds, known as pharmacological chaperones (PhCs), have been identified that restore the enzymatic activity of mutant PAHs.
Drug companies would love to find small compounds that mimic the effects of protein drugs yet evade breakdown in the digestive tract.
On the other side of the continent in Somalia, elite U.S. forces are operating from small compounds in Kismayo and Baledogle, according to reporting by Foreign Policy.
"The proposed killing of elephants to maintain small numbers in equally small compounds in Swaziland is not sound conservation, nor is exporting them for display in zoos," read the letter.
Even though the situation was stabilized, the South Vietnamese were forced to retreat into small compounds at the north and south ends of the town.
Vitamins are essential small compounds to maintain normal activities.
Nevertheless, small compounds with high inhibitory activity for trans-sialidase are not currently available.
