Essential Organic Chemistry:For Students of Pharmacy, Medicinal and Biological Chemistry is a comprehensive, accessible introduction to the essentials of the subject needed by those students taking courses in this area. Focusing on the key elements relevant to this target group, material is carefully chosen and explained with the extensive use of pharmaceutical and biochemical examples designed to provide a thorough grounding in fundamental chemical principles.

Essential topics are carefully selected to ensure relevance and presented in a student-friendly informal approach. Annotated schemes are included throughout to ensure consistency and reduce the need for lengthy textual explanations with worked examples provided to show typical examination problems and how to approach them.

Although there are numerous organic chemistry texts on the market few if any address the needs of the growing number of students taking chemistry-based courses such as Pharmacy and Medicinal Chemistry- these students don’t need to study this aspect of the subject in as much detail. These students currently have to use organic chemistry texts designed for chemistry courses where much of the material is irrelevant. Although much of the content is not unique, the selection of topics and their application to biological systems will make the book quite different from others available and of key use to pharmacists, medicinal and biological chemists.