About the Book

Organic Synthesis

This book is an effort to provide an overview of the role of organic synthesis in chemistry, in general and in science. It introduces the major methods of creating carbon-carbon and carbon-nitrogen bonds, along with functional group inter-conversions. Synthetic organic chemistry is an applied science as it borders engineering, the “design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes”. Organic synthesis of a novel compound is a problem solving task, where a synthesis is designed for a target molecule by selecting optimal reactions from optimal starting materials. Drugs that interfere with bacterial DNA synthesis might target enzymes not found in the animal cell like the bacterial DNA girase (topoisomerase II) that pack and unpack supercoiled bacterial DNA. Some antibiotics also target the bacterial DNA-dependent RNA polymerase, and still others interfere with metabolites essential for DNA synthesis and repair. The contents of the book will be highly informative to students, teachers and researchers of organic chemistry and allied fields. CONTENTS- (1)Organic Synthetic Drugs (2)Synthetic Disorders (3)Synthetic Natural Drugs and Human Health (4)Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics (5)Quantum Drugs (6)Synthesis of Triglycerides (7)Synthetic Narcotics (8)Protein Synthesis (9)Antimicrobial Drug Therapy (10)Synthetic Chemistry in Drug Discovery (11)Synthesis of Chiral Surfactants Drug.