About the Book:

This book is designed to cater the students opting for either Pharmaceutical Chemistry or Pesticide Chemistry as the Skill-Enhancement Course and includes the following topics: drug discovery, design and development; multiple synthesis of each of the fourteen representative drugs from various classes along with their retrosynthetic analysis; fermentation process basis and commercial Production of eleven chemical including drugs, vitamins amino acids, ethanol and citric acid; chemistry of nine common pesticide across five sub-classes and their production methods; and details of the experiments relating to the hands on practical for these SEC courses. Written in a lucid and student-friendly conversational tone, the book aims to develop the basic understanding of these topics with an emphasis on the chemical logic behind the concepts involved. The test is supplemented with sets of problems and multiple-choice questions at the end of each chapter.