Medicinal chemistry

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The medicinal chemistry is an interdisciplinary scientific branch of chemistry that deals with the design and synthesis of drug dealing and analyzed using molecular chemical principles of drug action and quantitative structure-activity relationships establishes. Medicinal chemistry combines aspects of organic chemistry with elements of computational chemistry , pharmacy , pharmacology , physiology , biochemistry and chemical biology .

An important journal in medicinal chemistry is the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry . Their impact factor in 2013 was 5,480. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge , the journal with this impact factor is ranked third out of 58 journals in the medicinal chemistry category.

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  1. 2013 Journal Citation Reports, Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2014).