Chemistry for Pharmacy Students
Chemistry for Pharmacy Students - General, Organic and Natural Product Chemistry
Writer : Satyajit D. Sarker, Lutfun Nahar
ISBN :978-0-470-01780-7
Copyright 2007 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Description
As all drugs are chemicals, and pharmacy is mainly about the study of various aspects of drugs, including manufacture, storage, actions and toxicities, metabolisms and managements, chemistry still plays a vital role in pharmacy education. However, the extent at which chemistry used to be taught a couple of decades ago has certainly changed significantly. It has been recognized that while pharmacy students need a solid foundation in chemistry knowledge the extent cannot be the same as chemistry students may need.
There are several books on general, organic and natural product chemistry available today, but all of them are written in such a manner that the level is only suitable for undergraduate Chemistry students, not for Pharmacy undergraduates. Moreover, in most modern pharmacy curricula, general, organic and natural product chemistry is taught at the first and second year undergraduate levels only. There are also a limited number of Pharmaceutical Chemistry books available to the students, but none of them can meet the demand of the recent changes in pharmacy courses in the developed countries.
Therefore, there has been a pressing need for a chemistry text covering the fundamentals of general, organic and natural product chemistry written at a correct level for the Pharmacy undergraduates. Physical (Preformulation) and analytical Chemistry (Pharmaceutical Analysis) are generally taught separately at year 2 and year 3 levels of any modern MPharm course, and there are a number of excellent and p-to-date texts available in these areas.
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