Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Author: Kuang Haixue
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: This book is a national-level planning teaching material for higher education under the "15th Five-Year Plan" and a new century planning teaching material for TCM higher education, organized and written by the Ministry of Education and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. According to the requirements of the training objectives and the teaching syllabus, the content primarily focuses on traditional Chinese medicine, emphasizing the basic theories, knowledge, and skills of the structure, properties, extraction and separation, detection, and structural determination of important types of chemical components. It also highlights the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, emphasizing the role of traditional Chinese medicine chemistry in realizing the modernization and industrialization of traditional Chinese medicine. Attention is given to introducing new ideas and methods for the modernization research of traditional Chinese medicine, reflecting the latest achievements, technologies, and developments in this discipline both domestically and internationally, as well as the application of new theories and technologies from related disciplines. This book adopts a positive and cautious approach to introduce cutting-edge knowledge and content in this field. Based on the characteristics of this discipline as an applied basic science, it fully emphasizes practicality, ensuring the systematic and comprehensive nature of the knowledge while striving to align the content with the needs of current practical work. Building on the previously published planning teaching materials for traditional Chinese medicine majors in higher education, this book has undergone significant adjustments to the content. Each important type of chemical component is introduced in chapters organized according to its biosynthetic pathway. Chapters have been established for phenylpropanoid compounds, triterpenoid compounds, steroidal compounds, tannins, and more. Additionally, to facilitate students' understanding of issues related to traditional Chinese medicine compound research, a chapter on the study of the pharmacodynamic material basis of traditional Chinese medicine compounds has been added. Furthermore, specific adjustments and revisions have been made to the content of each chapter.