The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action
- 2nd ed
- Amsterdam ; Boston Elsevier Academic Press 2004
- xix, 617 p., [12] pages of plates : ill (some color) ; 27 cm
Introduction -- Drug discovery, design, and development -- Receptors -- Enzymes -- Enzyme inhibition and inactivation -- DNA-interactive agents -- Drug metabolism -- Prodrugs and drug delivery systems.
Combining two essential Academic Press books, this bundle provides reference information for drug discovery researchers and professionals at a great price. Drug Like Properties provides drug discovery scientists and students with a practical understanding of property fundamentals and structure modification strategies that can be applied to improving drug leads. The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action represents a new approach based on physical organic chemical principles and reaction mechanisms that allow the reader to extrapolate to many related classes of drug molecules.