Thermodynamics of Pharmaceutical Systems

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Designed for pharmacy students Now updated for its Second Edition, Thermodynamics ofPharmaceutical Systems provides pharmacy students with amuch-needed introduction to the mathematical intricacies ofthermodynamics in relation to practical laboratory applications.Designed to meet the needs of the contemporary curriculum inpharmacy schools, the text makes these connections clear,emphasizing specific applications to pharmaceutical systemsincluding dosage forms and newer drug delivery systems. Students and practitioners involved in drug discovery, drugdelivery, and drug action will benefit from Connors' and Mecozzi'sauthoritative treatment of the fundamentals of thermodynamics aswell as their attention to drug molecules and experimentalconsiderations. They will appreciate, as well, the significantrevisions to the Second Edition. Expanding the book's scope andusefulness, the new edition: * Explores in greater depth topics most relevant to the pharmacistsuch as drug discovery and drug delivery, supramolecular chemistry,molecular recognition, and nanotechnologies * Moves the popular review of mathematics, formerly an appendix,to the front of the book * Adds new textual material and figures in several places, mostnotably in the chapter treating noncovalent chemicalinteractions * Two new appendices provide ancillary material that expands oncertain matters bordering the subject of classicalthermodynamics Thermodynamics need not be a mystery nor confined to the realmof mathematical theory. Thermodynamics of Pharmaceutical Systems,Second Edition demystifies for students the profound thermodynamicapplications in the laboratory while also serving as a handyresource for practicing researchers.

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Kenneth A. Connors

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"In this 2nd edition, Professor Connors continues his career-longcommitment to ensuring that pharmacy students comprehend thecomplexity of the chemistry that is so central to the practice ofpharmacy and the overall disciplines that comprise thePharmaceutical Sciences. While this book will continue to beinvaluable in those instances where required or elective coursesfocused on mechanisms and pharmaceutical systems remain a part ofthe Professional Pharmacy curriculum, it also could prove to be aunique resource for first year pharmaceutics graduate students whoenter these programs with undergraduate majors in the biological,rather than the chemical sciences.... Consistent with the treatmentof thermodynamics, kinetics and analytical chemistry in previoustextbooks, the authors lay out a logical systematic approach thatallow students to focus on basic definitions and principles, whichthen build an understanding through increasingly complexproblems.... While this text was developed for pharmacy students,its applicability to first year graduate students is noteworthy.The pharmaceutical sciences have always struggled with the variedbackgrounds of a diverse student population and in most casesbackground material in either the physical chemical or biologicalsciences, is desirable depending upon their undergraduatebackgrounds. With the increasingly biological orientation of thepharmaceutical sciences a large number of incoming students havenot had the basics of physical chemistry or thermodynamics whichare fundamental to drug discovery, design and understandingmechanism of transport and action in the body. In addition, theindustry as well as the Food and Drug Administration through itsCritical Path initiative express an urgent need to move towardsmuch scientific orientation of formulation and manufacture to tryto reduce the extensive time needed to develop, test and eventuallymarket a drug often due to historic trial and error processes basedupon previously approved processes. This textbook could fill thatvoid nicely in many graduate programs and lay the foundation forhigher level courses." --Dr. Jordan Cohen, Vice President for Research,University of Iowa
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