Michov B. Organic Chemistry in Medicine 2025

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This book is intended for students in medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry, physicians, dentists, pharmacists, biochemists, and more. It describes organic compounds that are of importance for medicine: heterocycles, alkaloids, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, enzymes, nucleic acids, and more.Organic chemistry plays a pivotal role in medicine and in developing, synthesizing, and understanding pharmaceutical compounds. It focuses on carbon-containing compounds, which form the backbone of organic molecules. Functional groups within organic molecules modulate the biochemical properties of organic compounds, like stability, solubility, and activity. Organic chemistry is used for designing drug formulations based on disease mechanisms.Short biographies of chemists and scientists, which have rendered services to general and inorganic chemistry in medicine, are given in a person index.
Organic Chemistry in Medicine
Reactions and Effects in Organic Chemistry
Isomerism
Hydrocarbons
Haloalkanes
Aromatic Compounds
Alcohols, Thiols, and Phenols
Ethers
Quinones
Carbonyl Compounds. Aldehydes and Ketones
Carboxylic Acids
Amines and Amides
Heterocyclic Compounds
Alkaloids
Carbohydrates
Lipids
Amino acids
Peptides and Proteins
Enzymes
Nucleobases, Nucleosides, and Nucleotides
Nucleic Acids