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Essentials of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
In 2007 I wrote in the Preface to the third edition that the science and
practice of pharmacy were undergoing a period of change. Now, as I write
the Preface to the fourth edition of Essentials of Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
it seems that the profession is still changing. The General Pharmaceutical
Council has replaced the Royal Pharmaceutical Society as the regulator for
pharmacy, the number of schools of pharmacy in the UK continues to rise
and there are plans to integrate the current four year MPharm degree into a
five year integrated model incorporating two six month periods in practice.
This new edition of EPC (as one of my students calls the book) has been
prepared against this changing background. I have tried to incorporate suggestions
from users and reviewers and have updated every chapter for this
edition and included new chapters, Chromatographic methods of analysis
and Medicinal Chemistry: the Science of Rational Drug Design.
As with previous editions, I am very grateful for the help, advice, comments
and encouragement from colleagues, reviewers and the many students of
pharmacy and pharmaceutical science who are forced to use this book as
part of their studies. I hope they find this new edition useful and, perhaps,
experience some of the wonder and enjoyment I felt when I was introduced
to the chemistry of drugs and medicines more than 30 years ago. If I was
being honest with myself, that’s still the way I feel about the subject today.
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