Description
Essentials of Pharmaceutical Chemistry is an introduction to pharmaceutical chemistry. It provides an understanding of the basic chemistry of drug molecules. Now a core text on many university courses, the book contains numerous worked examples and problems.
The fourth edition includes new chapters on Chromatographic Methods of Analysis, and Medicinal Chemistry - The Science of Drug Design.
• Chemistry of acids and bases
• Partition coefficient and biopharmacy
• Physicochemical properties of drugs
• Stereochemistry
• Drug metabolism
• Volumetric analysis of drugs
• Analytical spectroscopy
• Chromatographic methods of analysis
• Stability of drugs and medicines
• Kinetics of drug stability
• Licensing of drugs and the British Pharmacopoeia
• Medicinal chemistry: the science of rational drug design
• Answers to problems