Bøker av Peter J. Harrington

This comprehensive workbook helps readers become familiar with the structures and synthetic challenges associated with nearly 300 essential medicines and gain the skills needed for pharmaceutical development.* Highlights nearly three hundred medicines on the latest World Health Organization (WHO) Model List of Essential Medicines and their manufacturing routes* Features exercises that equip students with the skills necessary to solve similar real-world problems* Includes a retrosynthetic analysis for each commodity chemical and supplies an extensive list of key journal and information sites and a library of reagents, solvents, and conditions for many common organic reactions

Two global forces are at odds today: the push for "greener" processes and the push for lower drug prices. Offering detailed discussions of the published process chemistry of the ten top-selling small molecule drugs in the US in 2007, this book includes information which is usually carefully protected by the current and future manufacturers.