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Medicinal Chemistry, an evolving and interdisciplinary field, plays a key role in pharmaceutical research. It involves the study of therapeutically active compounds.This text book provides a concise introduction to medicinal chemistry suitable for undergraduate students. The book focuses mainly on examples and illustrates the principles and mechanisms with the liberal use of tables and figures. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction to the disease, drug classification, detailed subsections on different classes that include mechanism of action, therapeutic uses and structure activity relationships (SAR), among others.