Description:
Written by an author with more than 40 years of teaching experience in the field, this book responds to a critical classroom need for material on directed laboratory investigations in biological and pharmaceutical chemistry. This manual supplies 75 experiments in 22 major subject areas. This includes biochemical groups, for example, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, enzymes, and nucleic acids. Investigations also cover numerous botanical classes important to pharmacy, including balsams, glycosides, alkaloids, and tannins. Finally, there are experiments dealing with major drug classifications, such as analgesics, antibiotics, psychotropics, sulfonamides, and antacids.