5 Questions
What is the primary focus of medicinal chemistry?
Designing and developing pharmaceutical drugs
Which scientific disciplines does medicinal chemistry combine with?
Organic chemistry, biochemistry, computational chemistry
What are the broad classes of compounds used as medicines?
Small organic molecules and biologics
What does the discipline of Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry investigate?
The role of metals in medicine (metallotherapeutics)
Which types of compounds are most often medicinal preparations of proteins?
Biologics
Test your knowledge of medicinal chemistry with this quiz covering the design, development, and study of pharmaceutical drugs, including the identification, synthesis, and quantitative structure-activity relationships of new chemical entities.
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