Publication year: 2022
ISBN: 9781119847250
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Delivers an authoritative and comprehensive discussion of the medicinal chemistry of current drugs, as well as the cutting-edge science involved in their synthesis. The book demystifies the process of modern drug discovery for both industry practitioners and students, while capturing the state-of-the-art techniques used to discover some of the most impactful medicines on the market today. Covering six different disease areas – including infectious disease, cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic disease, the central nervous system, anti-inflammatory disease, and a miscellaneous section – the book explores 18 different drugs before concluding with chapters on computational drug discovery and peptide drugs.
Subject: Drugs, Design, Pharmaceutical chemistry, Pharmaceutics, Drug design, Drug synthesis, Pharmaceutical chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry