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Essentials of Pharmaceutical Chemistry 3rd Edition
Author(s): Donald Cairns (Author)
- Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
- Publication Date: March 15, 2008
- Edition: 3rd
- Language: English
- Print length: 280 pages
- ISBN-10: 0853697450
- ISBN-13: 9780071417983
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
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 TalantaDonald Cairns is Associate Head of School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences at The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK.
