Research work · 2021
The Importance of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Abstract
This chapter discusses the pharmacy, which is about how drugs are made, how to get them into the body, and how they work, their metabolism, their side-effects, and their interactions with other drugs. At the heart of the discipline of pharmacy is chemistry, because drugs are, of course, chemicals. The chapter provides an overview of the importance of pharmaceutical chemistry. It describes every living organism as a test tube, carrying out huge numbers of chemical reactions. Every drug is made using chemical reactions, some of these are in a laboratory, and every drug needs to be made up into a formulation, such as a tablet, or a cream, or an injectable solution.