Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry introduces both fundamental and advanced topics in an easy-to-comprehend manner, covering stereochemistry, carbanions in organic synthesis, electrocyctic and sigmatropic reactions – M.O. Theory, Nucleophitic substitutions, elimination reactions, neighbouring group participation, catalysis by transition metals and reagents in drug synthesis etc. The topics have been presented in a didactic approach. Students of pharmacy, biochemistry, biophysics, chemistry will find this book very useful.

Preface / Acknowledgement / Atomic Structure and Physical Properties / Acids and Bases / Isomerism/ Stereochemistry / Alkanes / Alkenes / Alkynes / Cycloalkanes / Dienes / Benzene / Arenes (Aromatic-Aliphatic Compounds / Polynuclear Aromatic Compounds / Alkyl Halides / Alcohols / Phenols / Ethers and Epoxides / Aldehydes and Ketones / Carboxylic Acids / Functional Derivatives of Carboxylic Acids / Amines / Carbanions: Aldol and Claisen Condensations, Malonic Ester Synthesis: Acetoacetic Ester Synthesis of Ketones / a, ß – Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds / Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitutions / Electrocyclic and Sigmatropic Reactions: Molecular Orbital Theory / Neighbouring Group Effects / Catalysis by Transition Metals / Stereoselective and Stereospecific Reactions / New Organic Reagents in Drug Synthesis / Index.

Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Researchers and Professionals