Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Prologue VI
3. Contents IX
4. 1. Basic concepts in pharmaceutical chemistry 1
5. 2. Drug nomenclature 10
6. 3. Search for prototypes 37
7. 4. Optimation of prototypes 46
8. 5. Biological targets and receptors for drugs 70
9. 6. Quantitative drug design: parameters and quantitative structure activity relationships 90
10. 7. Metabolic processes in drugs: other methodologies available for the discovery of new drugs 107
11. 8. Synthetic drug strategies 128
12. 9. Solutions to the exercises 143
13. Index 173