Essentials of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 3rd Edition - Softcover

Cairns, Prof Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0853697450 ISBN 13: 9780853697459

Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press, 2008

Synopsis

It covers the core information required by pharmacy students to understand the action of modern drugs on the human body.The third edition is larger than the previous edition and includes a new chapter on licensing of drugs and medicines which describes the make up and function of important committees such as the Commission of Human Medicines and the British Pharmacopoeia Commission. This includes material that is within the public domain and explains the process of getting a drug to market.The majority of the chapters include more worked examples/tutorial examples and the chapter on Analytical spectroscopy has been updated to include "qualitative" spectroscopic methods especially NMR, mass spectroscopy and some IR and the chapter on Stability of drugs and medicines has been updated to include a major section on "prodrugs" which are inactive compounds designed to decompose within the body to release the active moiety.

About this title

From the Author:

A useful book for anyone interested in chemistry of drugs
This book represents 14 years experience in teaching pharmaceutical chemistry to students of Pharmacy, Chemistry and Pharmacology in UK universities. Although primarily intended as an undergraduate textbook, Essentials of Pharmaceutical Chemistry will be useful to anyone interested in the chemistry of drugs and their action in the body.

From the Back Cover:

Essentials of Pharmaceutical Chemistry is a chemistry introduction that covers all the core material necessary to provide an understanding of the basic chemistry of drug molecules. Now a core text on many university courses, it contains numerous worked examples and problems. This third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. New additions include: · a chapter on Licensing of Drugs and the British Pharmacopoeia · an additional section on techniques of structure elucidation in the spectroscopy chapter · a bibliography of suggested additional reading. Essentials of Pharmaceutical Chemistry will be of particular interest to pharmacy undergraduates and students of chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences. Review of prior edition: ‘...an essential read for pharmacy students and, indeed, all science students who wish to consider careers in the pharmaceutical industry...’ Talanta Donald Cairns is Associate Head of School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences at The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0853697450
• ISBN 13: 9780853697459
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 304