Developed to provide a comprehensive guide the handbook of medicinal chemistry covers the past present and future of the entire drug development process highlighting the recent successes and failures in drug discovery the book helps readers to understand the factors governing modern drug discovery from the initial concept through to a marketed medicine with chapters covering a wide range of topics from drug discovery processes and optimization development of synthetic routes . The handbook of medicinal chemistry principles and practice edited by andrew davis and simon e ward. Medicinal chemistry principles and practice edited by f d king the royal society of chemistry cambridge 1994 xxiv 314 pp price uk 3950. King 11 in medicinal chemistry principles and practice records his amazement when he asks we expected brazil to be privileged as it has one third of the worlds herbal medicine however we . Medicinal chemistry principles and practice second edition abstract the first page of this article is displayed as the abstract about cited by related back to tab navigation