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Synthesis of Best-Seller Drugs

Volume 2

  • 2nd Edition - March 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Ruben Vardanyan, Gayane Vardanyan
  • Language: English

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

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Description

Synthesis of Best-Seller Drugs, Volume Two, 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 while 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

  • Presents over 500 detailed synthetic routes to manufacture drugs
  • 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 researchers working with Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, or Process Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Pharmacology

Table of contents

1. (23). Drugs for Treating Respiratory System Diseases

2. (24). Novel Structural Features and Advances in Antithrombotic Drugs (anticoagulant, antiplatelet, and thrombolytic drugs)

3. (25). Thyroid and Antithyroid Drugs

4. (26). Hyperglycemic and Hypoglycemic Drugs

5. (27). Steroid Hormones

6. (28). Antineoplastic Agents

7. (29). Immunopharmacological Drugs

8. (30). Antibiotics

9. (31). Antibacterial drugs

10. (32). Antimycobacterial drugs

11. (33). Antifungal drugs

12. (34). Antiviral drugs

13. (35). Drugs for treating protozoan infections

14. (36). Anthelmintics

15. (37). Proton pump inhibitors

16. (38). Drugs for treatment of erectile dysfunction

17. (39). Antiobesity drugs

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 10, 2026
  • Language: English

About the authors

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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

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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