Medicinal Chemistry 4th Ed

This book, ‘Medicinal Chemistry’ has two objectives in view. The first objective is to attract the interest of the undergraduate students in developing countries, so that they feel a spontaneous urge to explore and understand the basic theories of medicinal chemistry. These students often encounter enormous difficulties in grasping the fundamentals of synthesis of simple as well as complex compounds including those belonging to the therapeutic group, and they often get confused when they are supplied with inadequate information of vitally important medicinal compounds, their chemical formulae and chemical names. So this book aims at removing this inadequacy by furnishing copious information about medicinal compounds and pointing out their inter-relations wherever they exist. This method, it is believed, will add new incentive to the study of the subject, and will boost the spirit of research and provide a new dimension to the study of medicinal chemistry. Thus, in this book an attempt has been made to include and correlate detailed accounts of most of the important categories of drugs usually taught in the various Universities of developing countries offering diploma, degree and honours courses in Pharmacy. The second objective that has been kept in view is to make this a handy reference book for the professional class. With a view to fulfilling this second objective the author has adopted a specific style.