Progress in Medicinal Chemistry

G. P. Ellis (Volume editor), D.K. Luscombe (Volume editor)

9780444826329, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 18 August 1997

276 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.2 cm, 0.47 kg

"...a valuable source of reference." --British Medical Journal "...may the Progress in Medicinal Chemistry series continue its invaluable service..." --Chemistry and Industry "These volumes should be on the shelves of all specialist libraries which claim to cater for chemists, biologists, doctors and pharmacists and should be available to everyone interested in the contemporary controversy about drugs, drug firms and the community." --Pharmaceutical Journal

There are five main subject areas in this volume in the series on medicinal chemistry. The first is a review of the understanding of Alzheimer's disease and the development of drugs for its treatment; the second, looking at recent efforts in modifying a naturally occuring anticancer (campothecin) for chemotherapy; the third covers the problem of getting a drug to a specific site within the context of phosphates and phosphonates; a survey of sterilization using aldehydes for the destruction of microbes both inside and outside the human body is reviewed in the fourth; and the last chapter is an account of the progress made in the biologically active enantiomer for complex synthetic asymmetric drug molecules.

Subject Areas: Pharmaceutical technology [TDCW], Chemistry [PN], Pharmacology [MMG], Medical research [MBGR]