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Informationen zum Autor Professor Alan Jones is a recently retired Academic that is still involved in aspects of chemistry education. For many years Alan Jones taught chemistry to health students at Nottingham Trent University. Klappentext Chemistry: An Introduction for Medical and Health Sciences provides students amd practitioners with a clear, readable introduction to the chemical terms and concepts that are relevant to their study and practice. Assuming little prior knowledge of the subject, the book describes and explains the chemistry underlying many of the most commonly prescribed drugs and medicines. It also includes information on chemical aspects of digestion and nutrition, oxidation, radioactivity and an overview of how chemicals fight disease. The book contains a number of tests and questions, numerous good clear diagrams and boxes containing historical or topical vignettes. Chemistry: An Introduction for Medical and Health Sciences will prove invaluable to students and practitioners in medicine, pharmacology, pharmacy and the biomedical and health sciences. A user-friendly introduction to chemistry within the context of current practice. Excellent pedagogy including learning objectives, diagnostic tests and questions in each chapter and a comprehensive glossary. Effective both as a conventional textbook and for self-study. Zusammenfassung Chemistry: An Introduction for Medical and Health Sciences provides students and practitioners with a clear, readable introduction to the chemical terms and concepts that are relevant to their study and practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Introduction 1 How to use the book 1 1 Starting Chemistry 3 1.1 Terminology and processes used in drug manufacture 4 1.2 Atoms and things 9 1.3 Chemical reactions and the periodic table 11 2 Covalent Compounds and Organic Molecules 15 2.1 How to make stable molecules 18 2.2 Covalent compounds 18 2.3 General Properties of Covalent Compounds 22 2.4 Characteristic shapes and bond angles within covalent molecules 23 2.5 Some covalent bonds with slight ionic character 24 2.6 Double-bonded carbon compounds or 'unsaturated' carbon bonds 25 2.7 Some further compounds of carbon 27 2.8 The carbon cycle 28 2.9 Isomerism: some different arrangements of atoms within a molecule 29 2.10 Naming organic compounds if you really want to know! 33 2.11 Ring structures 36 2.12 Compounds of carbon containing other groups 37 2.13 Some further examples with explanations 37 3 Organic Compounds Containing Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen: Alcohols and Ethers 43 3.1 Alcohols, Cn H2n +1OH 45 3.2 Properties of alcohols: monohydric alcohols with one OH group 46 3.3 Other alcohols: di- and tri-hydric alcohols 48 3.4 Aromatic OH compounds: phenol 49 3.5 Ethers are isomers of alcohols 50 4 Carbonyl compounds: compounds containing C=O Groups 55 4.1 Simple aldehydes and ketones: carboxylic acids and esters 56 4.2 Carbohydrates, monosaccharides and sugars 58 4.3 Disaccharides 60 4.4 Digestion of sugars 61 4.5 More about sugars - if you really need to know! 62 4.6 Carboxylic acids: another set of CHO compounds containing C=O groups 63 4.7 Salts and esters 63 4.8 Lipids or fats 65 4.9 Chemical energy in cells 67 4.10 Chemicals in food 68 4.11 Soaps and detergents 69 5 Organic Compounds Containing Nitrogen 73 5.1 Amines and amino acids 75 5.2 Amino acids 76 5.3 Peptide formation and protein synthesis 77 5.4 Hydrolysis (action of water) of peptides 78 5.5 Other properties of amino acids 79 5.6 Protein metabolism 79 5.7 Nucleic acids, DNA and RNA 80
