Год выпуска: 2014 Автор: Mohammad Yaqub Khan,Bipin Bihari and Hemant Kumar Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 88 ISBN: 9783659108662
Описание
Undergraduate education in Medicinal Chemistry seems to be in the midst of a major revolution in India. Sophisticated topics are increasingly being introduced into the college chemistry courses. In Medicinal Chemistry, this trend is apparent in the new text books. However, it has been found that a single text, no matter how well written, is not the best medium of presenting glimpses of these sophisticated topics in addition to the necessary basic chemistry.In the past few decades there has been a hiatus in the momentum of research and discovery of ‘novel medicinal compounds’. This particular trend in drug development perhaps is augmented due to two vital factors, namely: first, strict empirical and rational approach to drug design; and secondly, high standards of safety and therapeutic efficacy together with tremendous increased costs of research and development and finally the clinical trials. Drug design‘ or ‘tailor-made compound’ aims at developing a drug with high degree...
