Medicinal Chemistry

This is the thoroughly revised, rewritten and enlarged second edition of a core textbook for undergraduate students of pharmacy, as well as other related disciplines that offer medicinal chemistry as an elective. Each of the 38 chapters provide an introduction, classes of compounds used, their mechanism of action, and structure-activity relationships. At the end of each chapter, a synthesis of selected compounds used in clinical practice is given.

The latest developments in the field of medicinal chemistry, along with three new chapters, have been added to this upddated edition. All the illustrations, chemical configurations and molecular modeling have been modified, improved and redrawn to clarify the content.