A Textbook of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry are disciplines at the intersection of chemistry, especially synthetic organic chemistry, and pharmacology and various other biological specialties, where they are involved with design, chemical synthesis and development for market of pharmaceutical agents, or bio-active molecules. Compounds used as medicines are most often organic compounds, which are often divided into the broad classes of small organic molecules and "biologics", the latter of which are most often medicinal preparations of proteins. Inorganic and organometallic compounds are also useful as drugs, e.g., lithium and platinum-based agents such as lithium carbonate and cis-platin. In particular, medicinal chemistry in its most common guise"focusing on small organic molecules"encompasses synthetic organic chemistry and aspects of natural products and computational chemistry in close combination with chemical biology, enzymology and structural biology, together aiming at the discovery and development of new therapeutic agents. The textbook provides the indeph information. All updated usual topics are explained in very simple language, from weak to extremely brilliant, will find something of interest to them in the chapters.