Essentials of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Essentials of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Third edition
Donald Cairns - Associate Head of School of Pharmacy, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK

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.

Contents:
1. Chemistry of Acids and Bases: 2. Partition Coefficient and Biopharmacy: 3. Physicochemical Properties of Drugs: 4. Stereochemistry: 5. Drug Metabolism: 6. Volumetric Analysis of Drugs: 7. Analytical Spectroscopy: 8. Stability of Drugs and Medicines: 9. Kinetics of Drug Stability: 10. Licensing of Drugs and the British Pharmacopoeia: 11. Answers to Problems: