Fmoc Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis: A Practical Approach Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a good book for peptide chemist. It has detailed protocol for almost all useful information about Fmoc solid phase peptide synthesis which is used in most of the peptide company, in our company, this book acts as a standard reference for our daily production. I strongly recommend you to buy one if you are or you want to be a peptide chemist.

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In the years since the publication of Atherton and Sheppard's volume, the technique of Fmoc solid-phase peptide synthesis has matured considerably and is now the standard approach for the routine production of peptides. The basic problems outstanding at the time of publication of this earlier work have now been, for the most part, solved. As a result, innovators in the field have focussed their efforts to develop methodologies and chemistry for the synthesis of more complex structures. The focus of this new volume is much broader, and covers not only the essential procedures for the production of linear peptides but also more advanced techniques for preparing cyclic, side-chain modified, phospho- and glycopeptides. Many other methods also deserving attention have been included: convergent peptide synthesis; peptide-protein conjugation; chemoselective ligation; and chemoselective purification. The difficult preparation of cysteine and methionine-containing peptides is also covered, as well as methods for overcoming aggregation during peptide chain assembly and a survey of available automated instrumentation.

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The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action, Second Edition Review

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(More customer reviews)This is probably the best book of its kind in the vast and multidisciplinary field of drug design and action. Richard Silverman is an acclaimed chemistry professor at Northwestern University, and in this book he provides the most comprehensive and lucid exposition of the chemical basis of drug action that I have seen. No matter how complicated biological systems and their interactions are, at the basic level it's all chemistry, and mostly organic chemistry. Thus, understand the chemistry and you will go a long way in understanding drug action. An organic chemist will find this book extremely illuminating in a way that would not have been made clear through his traditional education.
The book opens with a short but clear discussion of drug discovery, combinatorial chemistry, patents and clinical trials. Then it leads the reader through a variety of enzyme catalyzed reactions, with examples of major drugs studded all the way. Silverman shows us how nature is the master organic chemist, employing the familiar reactions of chemistry in an unsurpassed manner. The chapter on enzyme inhibition is long and detailed and it's breathtaking. This is a key chapter because almost all major drugs act by inhibiting enzymes. The examples which Silverman chooses to illustrate are both important (including many bestselling anticancer, antiviral, and antibiotic drugs to name a few), as well as very interesting. The last parts of the book deal with DNA binding drugs and with pathways of drug metabolism and excretion. Along all the way, the emphasis is on the chemical reactions that drugs undergo, which are after all the key to understanding their properties. The lucidity of the book is such that a beginning graduate or advanced undergraduate well-versed with the basic principles of general and organic chemistry can easily understand all the contents.
I would say that this book is so interesting and illuminating that it's one of the very few academic books which you can enjoyably read cover to cover. In fact it even makes great bedside reading! Truly a must-have book for chemists and biologists of every kind interested in how drugs work.

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Process Development: Fine Chemicals from Grams to Kilograms (Oxford Chemistry Primers) Review

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(More customer reviews)Process development is generally not taught in schools. However it is the everyday practice of many industrial chemists. The book is really helpful in bridging these two quite different aspects of organic synthesis. It describes the issues, problems, and solutions in scale-up. It also covers environmental and regulatory issues and more importantly, commonly and preferrably used solvents and reagents in large scale operations. Real examples from pharmaceuticals are used to demonstrate all these issues and the way to synthesize fine chemicals in multi-kilogram quantities instead of laboratory milligram scale.
An excellent small book, easy and fun to read. Recommended to both the experienced and beginners.


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Process development bridges the gap between the laboratory synthesis of an organic compound and its industrial manufacture on a large scale. This concise and readable text uses real examples and case histories from ICI/Zeneca Pharmaceuticals to show the problems which may be encountered in scaling up chemical synthesis, and the ways these problems may be overcome. It shows how it is possible to synthesize multi-kilogram quantities of a new organic compound which has been made in the laboratory only in the milligram scale. A wide range of aliphatic, aromatic, and heterocyclic compounds is covered. This book will be invaluable both to the research chemist involved in the development phase of novel compounds, and the advanced undergraduate interested in the fine chemicals industry.

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