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MEDICAL CHEMISTRY AND NATURAL PRODUCTS:

Medical chemistry applies chemical research techniques to the synthesis of pharmaceutics.

Natural products provide a starting point for all medicinal chemistry research projects by giving leads potential drugs. Leads are important in the field of medicinal discovery which climaxes at structural elucidation and synthesis strategies. earlier studies in medical chemistry looked deep into isolation of medicinal agents from natural products and today, with advancement in knowledge, technology and skills, the project gets as far as creating synthetic drugs.

RESEARCH:

Research in medicinal chemistry gets emphasized on sturcture activity relationship of bioactive natural products.

Research in medicinal chemistry links many scientific disciplines that includes but not limited to: biologists, analytical chemists, biopharmacologists, organic chemists, biochemists, microbiologists, theoretical chemists, toxicologists and physiologists all with great analytical techniques to synthesize and test drug products.

RELEVANCE:

Medicinal chemistry and natural products'research covers chemical bilogical relationships that are vital in the drug discovery science community Help in increasing the understanding of biochemical interractions amongst scientists Correlates drug structures with mode of bioactivity

PERSONALITY:

All scientists with ambition and interrest to become one of medicinal researchers. most researchers in the field are PhD holders. those with B.Sc are vital as technicians.

reference list 1.http://portal.acs.org 2.http://www.springer.com 3.http://www.wiley.com