Medicinal Chemistry

Medicinal chemistry is fascinating, intellectually challenging, and requires much knowledge in such diverse disciplines as chemistry (synthetic, analytical, theoretical, physical), biology (mainly cell), pharmacology, and other sciences. It is NOT a subdiscipline of organic chemistry, and if you have a degree in organic chemistry, there is much additional coursework before calling yourself a true medicinal chemist. It is the very definition of a hybrid discipline.

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Medicinal Chemistry Resources	Academic and Goverment Medicinal Chemistry Links Glossary of Medicinal Chemistry ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry Homepage Prescription Drugs, Information, Side Effects, Interactions - Drugs.com Future Medicine 1,360 online Medical Glossaries & Dictionaries in 18 languages Medicinal Chemistry Resources RxList - Top200 Cytochrome P450 Drug Interactions Clinically Used Drugs Metabolized by Cytochrome P450
Important Background Information	Amino Acids Amino Acid Reactions Proteins Physical Properties of Molecules Enzymes - Lock&Key Lewis Diagrams Molecular Polarity Electrostatic Potential Acids and Bases pH Scale Functional group geometry Organic Molecule Geometry
Drug Chemistry	Introduction to Drug Action Drugs - Receptor General Review of drug types: CNS Narcotics CNS Hallucingens CNS Barbiturates CNS Antidepressants Central Nervous System Local Anesthetics Nervous System Nervous System - adrenergic Nervous System - cholinergic
Animations of Biological Processess	Animations of cellular processes BioCreations.com B Cell Animation in Flash - Molecular Movie Flash Animation of B Cell Selection Flash Animation of MHC I loading peptide Flash Animation of MHC II loading peptide Flash Animation of Somatic Recombination of Antibody Light Chain Interactive Animation of B Cell activation by Thymus Independent Antigen IP3 and calcium ion wave production after ligand binds receptor - shaockwave Flash animation MAP Kinase Signal Transduction Animation Neurobiology Animations, Blackwell Science QT and Flash to illustrate Biological Processes RT-PCR Methodology T Cell Selection Animation
Online Books and Major Reference Works	Capstone Clinic Digital Library Clinical Links Current Medicinal Chemistry DailyDrugNews.com Fundamental of Drug Action I- stereochemistry Medical Pharmacology PSC 3320 - Principles of Drug Action PSC 3320 - Principles of Drug Action - Woster's Page Talaria: A Hypermedia Assistant for Cancer Pain Management Talarian Multimedia Tools Frame Timmons & Hamilton: Drugs, Brains & Behavior VRML in Chemistry