Pure & Applied Chemistry

Medicinal Chemistry

Medicinal chemistry is the intersection of chemistry, especially synthetic organic chemistry, and pharmacology, where they are involved with design, chemical synthesis and development for market of pharmaceutical agents, or bio-active molecules. Medicinal chemistry  focus on small organic molecules, encompasses synthetic organic chemistry and aspects of natural products and computational chemistry are close combination with chemical biology, enzymology and structural biology together aiming at the discovery and development of new therapeutic agents. It involves chemical aspects of identification, and synthetic alteration of new chemical entities to make them suitable for therapeutic use, understanding their structure-activity relationships. Drug discovery is the identification of novel active chemical compounds. It also studies about the drug metabolism.