Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Pharmaceutical chemistry also studies drug design and synthesis, but takes it a step further with the process of bringing new drugs to market. It include synthesis of medicinal compounds, structure elucidation of medicinal substances. Pharmaceutical chemistry involves the use of laboratory method to determine the composition of samples qualitatively, semi qualitatively and quantitatively. Various areas in pharmaceutical chemistry are

• New drug development
• Computer aided drug design
• Structure activity relationship studies
• In-vitro in-vivo screening of chemical moieties