Pharmaceutical Chemistry. / Volume 1, : Drug Design and Action.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Campos Rosa, Joaquín M.,; Camacho Quesada, M. Encarnación,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Textbook ; Volume 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 174 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Prologue --; Contents --; 1. Basic concepts in pharmaceutical chemistry --; 2. Drug nomenclature --; 3. Search for prototypes --; 4. Optimation of prototypes --; 5. Biological targets and receptors for drugs --; 6. Quantitative drug design: parameters and quantitative structure activity relationships --; 7. Metabolic processes in drugs: other methodologies available for the discovery of new drugs --; 8. Synthetic drug strategies --; 9. Solutions to the exercises --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110528480; 9783110719543; 9783110540550; 9783110625264; 9783110548235
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110528480
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

This two volume book is an excellent introduction to this interdisciplinary area, lying on the interface between organic chemistry, biochemistry and medicine. The authors give a comprehensive overview of the field and outline the actual challenges in pharmaceutical science and industry. Volume 1 introduces the concepts of drug design and drug metabolic processes as well as antibacterial, antiviral and anticancer agents.