Most drugs in clinical use target proteins such as receptors, proteinaceous enzymes, transport proteins, membrane proteins, and ion channels. The practice of medicinal chemistry, fourth edition provides a practical and comprehensive overview of the daily issues facing pharmaceutical researchers and chemists. Armed with this knowledge, medicinal chemists can introduce structural modifications to a lead compound and optimise drug target interactions. Medicinal chemistry also studies the physical and chemical properties of drug, the methods of drug quality control. The book does not require extensive knowledge of biochemistry, but rather starts from scratch, covering the structure and function of enzymes and receptors, and the most important drug. The journal is essential for every medicinal chemist who.
London dispersion forces may also cause interactions between a drug and a receptor. The dosage of a drug and its in vivo efficacy are influenced by how strongly the drug binds to a receptor, 1 its solubility, and other biopharmaceutical properties. Receptor types, mechanism, receptor pharmacology, drug receptor interactions, theories of receptor pharmacology, spare receptors and new concepts like biased a slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to. The relationship of medicinal chemistry to other disciplines is indicated in the following diagram. The organic chemistry of drug design and drug action, third edition, represents a unique approach to medicinal chemistry based on physical organic chemical principles and reaction mechanisms that rationalize drug action, which allows reader to extrapolate those core principles and mechanisms to many related classes of drug. The chemistry of interactions involved in the enzyme mechanism and the role of cofactors have to be considered. Current topics in medicinal chemistry, volume 20 number 10. Structurally specific activity is dependent upon the interaction of the drug with a cellular receptor. Computational medicinal chemistry for drug discovery crc. International journal of medicinal chemistry 2012, 2012, 116. This e book provides the fundamental principles of medicinal chemistry including the functional groups occurring in medicinal agents, the acidity and basicity of drugs, and their water and lipid solubility as well as drug receptor interactions. In general, special volumes are edited by well known guest editors.
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