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Download or read book Top Drugs: Top Synthetic Routes written by John Saunders and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-05-18 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will allow students to see how the organic chemistry taught in undergraduate courses is applied by medicinal chemists in industry. Many of today's best selling drugs are first made in the chemical laboratory on a very small scale many years before they enter the market place. During the intervening period, organic chemists investigate alternative methods both to improve the overall yield of the process and to ensure that it operates safely on a manufacturing scale. This book describes briefly how each drug works and then reviews the most efficient routes to their synthesis.