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Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Development

  • 1st Edition - February 5, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Gang Liu
  • Language: English

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Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Development describes the key events and roles of medicinal chemistry in the discovery and development of lead compounds into drugs, including target identification, which is accomplished by using 30 case studies. This book outlines all the stages of drug development, including the discovery of active compounds, research on the pharmacological
properties of molecules, and confirmation of drug targets. The role of the case studies is to show the common factors in the successful development of drugs, thereby showing medicinal chemists how best to explore the scientific pathways when developing new drugs. This makes the book especially relevant for senior university students majoring in pharmaceutical sciences as well as graduate students and researchers.

Key features

  • Provides unique information on different drug development case studies
  • Integrates pharmaceutical knowledge—mainly medicinal chemistry—with new drug development thinking
  • Describes using case studies, the impact of key events in drug development and on drug efficacy

Readership

Senior university students majoring in pharmaceutical sciences and graduate students

Table of contents

1. Medicinal chemistry and process development of the type 2 diabetes drug sitagliptin

1.1 Introduction to the type 2 diabetes drug sitagliptin

1.2 Incretin and its degrading enzyme dipeptidyl peptidase-4

1.3 Property-based drug design

1.4 Common factors influencing the ADME/T properties of drugs

1.5 Early pharmacological and toxicological studies of dipeptidyl peptidase IV inhibitors

1.6 Confirmation of lead compounds

1.7 Optimization of the β-amino acid series lead compounds

1.8 Clinical studies of the new drug sitagliptin

1.9 Process chemistry of sitagliptin
2. The developmental history of insulin pharmaceuticals

2.1 Introduction to diabetes and insulin

2.2 Development of insulin pharmaceuticals

2.3 Summary and outlook
3. The developmental trajectory of GLP-1 receptor agonists

3.1 Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)
peptide-1 (GLP-1)

3.2 The development of GLP-1 therapeutics

3.3 The unsuccessful case in GLP-1 drug R&D and the implications and lessons

3.4 Summary and outlook
4.1 Factors related to the onset of diabetes

4.2 Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors as anti-diabetic drugs

4.3 Successful experience in the development of dapagliflozin
5. Cholesterol-lowering drug atorvastatin

5.1 Hypercholesterolemia and cardiovascular diseases

5.2 Atorvastatin, the cholesterol-lowering drug

5.3 Medicinal chemistry of atorvastatin

5.4 Summary and outlook
6. Angiotensin II receptor antagonists for treatment of hypertension: the discovery of losartan and its analogs

6.1 Brief introduction of hypertension and commonly used medications for the treatment of hypertension

6.2 The renin-angiotensin system

6.3 Angiotensin II receptor antagonists

6.4 Discovery of losartan

6.5 Discovery of losartan analogs
7. Antithrombotic drug—apixaban

7.1 What is thrombosis?

7.2 Treatment of thrombosis

7.3 The medicinal chemistry of apixaban

7.4 Clinical indications of apixaban

7.5 Postclass requirements and references
8. Development of the anticoagulant drug fondaparinux sodium

8.1 Thrombotic disorders

8.2 Functions of factor Xa

8.3 Treatment of thrombotic disorders

8.4 Discovery and history of anticoagulant drug: fondaparinux sodium

8.5 Chemical process of fondaparinux sodium

8.6 Summary
9. Development of the nucleotide antiviral drug sofosbuvir for the hepatitis C virus

9.1 Hepatitis C and hepatitis C virus

9.2 Hepatitis C virus biology

9.3 Discovery of sofosbuvir

9.4 Clinical studies of sofosbuvir

9.5 Summary and outlook
10. The first HIV-1 integrase inhibitor, raltegravir

10.1 AIDS and HIV

10.2 Anti-HIV drugs

10.3 The discovery journey of raltegravir

10.4 Research on the synthetic process of raltegravir

10.5 Summary and knowledge expansion
11. Discovery and development of the human immunodeficiency virus protease inhibitor Saquinavir

11.1 Overview of virus

11.2 Human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

11.3 HIV protease and inhibitor saquinavir

11.4 Further development of Saquinavir

11.5 Anti-HIV/AIDS drugs and novel treatment strategies
12. Baloxavir: an antiinfluenza drug with a novel mechanism of action

12.1 Influenza virus

12.2 Antiinfluenza drugs

12.3 Development of baloxavir
13. Paclitaxel: a natural antitumor agent

13.1 Discovery and development of taxol

13.2 The pharmaceutical chemistry of paclitaxel

13.3 Design strategy for paclitaxel prodrugs

13.4 Summary and outlook
14. Antitumor drug eribulin

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Antitumor mechanism of eribulin

14.3 The development process of eribulin

14.4 Pharmacological characteristics of eribulin

14.5 Clinical research and safety evaluation of eribulin

14.6 Conclusion
15. Targeted protein kinase inhibitor imatinib

15.1 Protein kinases (PKs) and protein kinase inhibitors (PKIs) as antineoplastic agents

15.2 Medicinal chemistry of imatinib

15.3 Imatinib resistance and solutions

15.4 Summary
16. A case study of the irreversible covalent epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor—afatinib

16.1 Preface

16.2 Epidermal growth factor receptor and quinazoline-based small molecule inhibitors

16.3 Drug design based on covalent inhibition strategies

16.4 Development of covalent irreversible EGFR inhibitor2 afatinib

16.5 Synthesis of afatinib

16.6 Summary and knowledge expansion
17. Medicinal chemistry and process development of the antibreast cancer drug tamoxifen

17.1 Estrogen receptors and breast cancers

17.2 The medicinal chemistry of the selective estrogen receptor modulator tamoxifen

17.3 Clinical investigations of tamoxifen

17.4 Summary, knowledge expansion, and references
18. Triazole antifungal drug—fluconazole

18.1 Overview of fungal infections

18.2 Overview of antifungal drugs

18.3 The developmental history of fluconazole

18.4 Structure optimization of fluconazole: development of new generation triazole antifungal drugs
19. Discovery of the antibacterial drug Linezolid and its synthetic technology research

19.1 Development of antibacterial agents

19.2 Discovery of the antibacterial drug Linezolid

19.3 Bioactivity and pharmacokinetics of antibacterial drug Linezolid

19.4 The antibacterial mechanisms of Linezolid

19.5 Study on structure-activity relationship of oxazolidinone antibiotics

19.6 Research on the synthesis process of Linezolid

19.7 Conclusion
20. Carbapenem antibiotic meropenem

20.1 Introduction

20.2 Bacterial resistance and special use level antibacterial drugs

20.3 Case of meropenem

20.4 The progress on other carbapenem antibiotics
21. Antiparasitic drug praziquantel

21.1 Parasitic diseases

21.2 Antiparasitic drug praziquantel

21.3 Medicinal chemistry of praziquantel

21.4 Green process for praziquantel and its levoisomer

21.5 Green chemistry future
22. A case study on the proton pump inhibitor omeprazole

22.1 Peptic ulcers

22.2 Why is omeprazole

22.3 Medicinal chemistry of omeprazole

22.4 Clinical applications of omeprazole

22.5 Summary and knowledge expansion
23. The inhibitors of phosphodiesterase type 5A effectively treat erectile dysfunction

23.1 The nitric oxide-cyclic guanosine monophosphate signaling pathway associated with penile erectile function

23.2 Sildenafil for the management of male erectile dysfunction

23.3 The approval of second and thirdgeneration highly selective phosphodiesterase type 5A inhibitors

23.4 Synthesis of selective phosphodiesterase type 5A inhibitors

23.5 Molecular mechanisms of phosphodiesterase type 5A inhibitors

23.6 Summary and prospect
24. GABAA receptor agonists: discovery of the general anesthetic propofol and its analogs

24.1 Introduction to anesthesia 585

24.2 Common drugs in clinical anesthesia

24.3 Medicinal chemistry of the general intravenous anesthetic propofol and its analogs

25. The discovery of risperidone: a case of multiple target antipsychotic drug
25.1 Antipsychotic drugs

25.2 Medicinal chemistry of risperidone

25.3 Characteristics of risperidone’s effects
26. A case study on the first-in-class antirenal anemia drug roxadustat

26.1 Renal anemia and its pathogenesis

26.2 Medications for the treatment of renal anemia

26.3 Development process of roxadustat

26.4 Conclusion
27. Function, pharmaceutical, and pharmacological research and development of natural tetracyclic dipyranocoumarin (1)-calanolide A and its analogs

27.1 Discovery and structural diversity of natural tetracyclic dipyranocoumarins

27.2 Natural nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors

27.3 Anti-HIV-1 activity of improved calanolides

27.4 (1)-Calanolide A and its derivatives inhibit replicating and non-replicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis

27.5 Fluorescent activity of nitrofuran derivatives: a revelatory outcome
28. Bisphosphonates: a targeted therapeutic medication for skeletal system

28.1 Unveiling the saga of bisphosphonates

28.2 Elucidating the mechanisms of action of bisphosphonate drugs

28.3 Medicinal chemistry of nitrogencontaining bisphosphonates

28.4 Novel applications of bisphosphonate inhibitors
29. Celecoxib targets cyclooxygenase in nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs

29.1 Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs and cyclooxygenase

29.2 Selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor celecoxib

29.3 Other representative coxib drugs

29.4 Summary and perspective
30. Case study of antisense oligonucleotides for duchenne muscular dystrophy

30.1 Introduction

30.2 Duchenne muscular dystrophy

30.3 Mechanism of action of antisense oligonucleotide drugs

30.4 The developmental trajectory of antisense oligonucleotide therapeutics targeting the DMD gene

30.5 Summary and outlook

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 5, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Gang Liu

Professor Gang Liu has been engaged in research on medicinal chemistry and chemical biology for over 30 years. He studied at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of California, Davis in the United States. Since 2011, he has been a "Tenure-Track Professor" at Tsinghua University, Vice Dean of School of Medicine, and was responsible for the establishment of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (now the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences) at Tsinghua University.

Affiliations and expertise
Tsinghua University

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