Pharmaceutical Chemistry of Natural Products

Salient Features Logical and concise presentation of content as per the needs of the students Incorporation of all chemical and pharmaceutical aspects of the natural products Systematic and consistent organization of chapters: overview, nomenclature, classification, qualitative chemical tests, and general physical and chemical properties Detailed discussion on pharmaceutically important natural products with the source, pharmacological properties and uses, along with their general properties Interesting and user-friendly presentation of pharmacological action, to help the students quickly recapitulate the action of the drug Simplified presentation of structural elucidation along with structures of compounds, which helps to reproduce well in examinations Structure-activity relationship (SAR) of some important groups of natural products, e.g. estrogens, progesterones, penicillins, etc. Comprehensive coverage of syllabi of all the major Indian universities, AICTE and the PCI