Medicinal chemistry is a discipline at the intersection of chemistry and pharmacology involved with designing, synthesizing and developing pharmaceutical drugs. It involves the identification, synthesis and development of new chemical entities suitable for therapeutic use. It also includes the study of existing drugs, their biological properties, and their quantitative structure activity relationships.

This book has been designed for both undergraduate as well as postgraduate students in chemistry. The focus of the book is concentrated not just on the conventional experiments in medicinal chemistry, but also on the currents trends, developments and researches in instrumental analysis.