Organic Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemisty, Volume 3

Thoroughly revised and enlarged, and covering 100 new drugs and their preprations, Organic Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry consists of three volumes. New medicinal compounds have been selected according to their practical utility and didactic importance. Chemical and biochemical aspects of important drugs pertaining to their development biological contents and structure activity relationship have been supplemented.

The individual chapters have been uniformly designed and subject matter put in the usual familiar style. The regular design of descriptive presentation has been adopted under the headings of structure of drug properties pharmacology structure activity relationship biotransformation synthesis analysis and uses. The analytical portions of the volumes deal with methods investigating and analysing the drugs and their preparations.

All the analytical methods, including chromatographic techniques, have been described. The aromatic part deals with general aromatic chemistry along with medicinal chemistry and compounds and preparations belonging to it.

This highly acclaimed textbook is aimed primarily at the requirement of pharmacy students and is an invaluable reference book for practising pharmacists and chemists.