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Synthesis of Best-Seller Drugs

  • 2nd Edition - December 4, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Ruben Vardanyan, Gayane Vardanyan
  • Language: English

Synthesis of Best-Seller Drugs, Second Edition provides detailed information on the most popular drugs, using a practical layout arranged according to drug type. Each chapte… Read more

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Description

Synthesis of Best-Seller Drugs, Second Edition provides detailed information on the most popular drugs, using a practical layout arranged according to drug type. Each chapter reviews the main drugs in each of nearly 40 key therapeutic areas, also examining their classification, novel structural features, models of action, and synthesis. Of high interest to all those who work in the captivating areas of biologically active compounds and medicinal drug synthesis, in particular medicinal chemists, biochemists, and pharmacologists, the book aims to support current research efforts, while also encouraging future developments in this important field.

Key features

  • Over 500 detailed synthetic routes to manufacture drugs are included
  • Describes the methods of synthesis, bioactivity and related drugs for all drug types
  • Examines the chemistry and mode of action of over 700 drugs

Readership

Graduate students and reserachers working with Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, or Process Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Pharmacology

Table of contents

1. General Anesthetics

2. Local Anesthetics

3. Analgesics

4. Soporific Agents (Hypnotics and Sedative Drugs)

5. Anxiolytics (Tranquilizers)

6. Antipsychotics

7. Antidepressants

8. Central Nervous System Stimulants

9. Antiepileptic Drugs

10. Antiparkinsonian Drugs

11. Adrenergic (Sympathomimetic) Drugs

12. Adrenoblockers

13. Cholinomimetics

14. Anticholinergic Drugs

15. Centrally Acting Skeletal Muscle Relaxants

16. Antihistamine Drugs

17. Cardiotonic Inotropic Drugs

18. Antiarrhythmic Drugs

19. Antianginal Drugs

20. Hypolipidemic and Antihyperlipidemic Drugs

21. Diuretics

22. Antihypertensive Drugs

23. Drugs for Treating Respiratory System Diseases

24. Antithrombotic Drugs (Anticoagulants, Antiplatelets, and Thrombolytics)

25. Thyroid and Antithyroid Drugs

26. Hyperglycemic and Hypoglycemic Drugs

27. Steroid Hormones

28. Antineoplastic Agents

29. Immunopharmacological Drugs

30. Antibiotics

31. Antibacterial Drugs

32. Antimicobacterial Drugs

33. Antifungal Drugs

34. Antiviral Drugs

35. Drugs for Treating Protozoan Infections

36. Anthelmintics

37. Proton Pump Inhibitors

38. Drugs for Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction

39. Anti-obesity drugs

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 4, 2025
  • Language: English

About the authors

RV

Ruben Vardanyan

Research Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona
Affiliations and expertise
Research Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

GV

Gayane Vardanyan

Gayane Vardanyan Professor of Biochemistry Department, Yerevan State Medical University, teaching a general course in biochemistry.

She conducts studies on the neurochemical mechanisms of pain, investigates the functioning of the brain reward system during formation of obesity, as well as manages research work on the possible role of disturbances in the processes of opioidergic neurotransmission during development of diabetic neuropathy.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Biochemistry Department, Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia

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