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Medicinal chemistry is the chemistry discipline concerned with the design, development and synthesis of pharmaceutical drugs. The discipline combines expertise from chemistry and pharmacology to identify, develop and synthesize chemical agents that have a therapeutic use and to evaluate the properties of existing drugs.

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Articles | Chemistry | Medicinal Chemistry
Date: 18-Feb-2013 Views: 88113

Medicinal Chemistry is a discipline with a traditional focus on organic synthetic chemistry with the broad goals of drug discovery and optimization. T ...

Gentamicin Drug - Medicinal Chemistry & Uses

Articles | Chemistry | Medicinal Chemistry
Date: 25-Oct-2011 Views: 7711

Gentamicin belongs to the class of antibiotics called Aminoglycosides. Most of the Aminoglycosides are isolated from Streptomyces or micromonospora s ...

Clindamycin Drug - Medicinal Chemistry & Uses

Articles | Chemistry | Medicinal Chemistry
Date: 25-Oct-2011 Views: 6934

Clindamycin belongs to a class called Lincomycins which were isolated from Streptomyces. This class resembles another antibiotic class called Macroli ...

Doxycycline Drug - Medicinal Chemistry & Uses

Articles | Chemistry | Medicinal Chemistry
Date: 23-Oct-2011 Views: 7967

Doxycycline is a member of the class of tetracycline antibiotics. These agents are effective against a wide variety of bacteria, including both Gram p ...

Metronidazole Drug - Medicinal Chemistry & Uses

Articles | Chemistry | Medicinal Chemistry
Date: 22-Oct-2011 Views: 9367

Metronidazole is a nitroimidazole antibiotic drug. Nitroimidazoles are imidazole heterocycles that have a nitro group that is used to combat anaerobic ...

Ciprofloxacin Drug - Medicinal Chemistry & Uses

Articles | Chemistry | Medicinal Chemistry
Date: 21-Oct-2011 Views: 6118

Ciprofloxacin is a member of the antibiotic class Quinolones. The presence of a fluorine group at position 6 of the molecule places it into a subclass ...

Amoxicillin Drug - Medicinal Chemistry & Uses

Articles | Chemistry | Medicinal Chemistry
Date: 20-Oct-2011 Views: 12634

Amoxicillin belongs to a class of antibiotics called the Penicillins. The chemical structure of the Penicillin antibiotics contain a highly reactive ...

Vancomycin - Medicinal Chemistry & Clinical Uses

Articles | Chemistry | Medicinal Chemistry
Date: 16-Oct-2011 Views: 10527

Vancomycin is an antibiotic that has been around for the last forty years. Recently however, vancomycin has been increasing in popularity because of i ...