Pharmaceutical chemistry

Constantin Zwenger (1814-1884).

The Zwengersche Institute for Chemical Pharmacy at the Philipps University of Marburg (1873).

Gravestone on the honorary grave of the city of Marburg / Lahn.

Pharmaceutical chemistry is a branch of pharmacy and pharmaceutical research , the science of drugs and drugs . Pharmaceutical chemistry is the specialty of pharmacy that deals with the chemical properties of drugs in the broadest sense. The analysis (detection) of drugs and drugs as well as the synthesis (production) of drugs play a special role . Areas closely related to pharmaceutical chemistry are medicinal chemistry , pharmacology and toxicology .

The basis of pharmaceutical chemistry is organic chemistry and sub-areas of inorganic chemistry . In Germany, most of the professors in pharmaceutical chemistry have degrees in chemistry and pharmacy. Horst Böhme (1908–1996) - an important pharmaceutical chemist - and many of his academic students should be mentioned as examples.

history

As early as 1836, a teaching position for pharmaceutical chemistry was set up at the University of Würzburg . Constantin Zwenger (1814–1884) is considered to be the founder of the field of pharmaceutical chemistry. From 1852 he was head of the Pharmaceutical Institute at the University of Marburg and full professor of pharmaceutical chemistry there.

literature

Fritz Elsner: Grundriss der Pharmaceutischen Chemie - A guide for teaching, at the same time as a manual for repetition for pharmacists and mediciners , Julius Springer publishing house, Berlin Heidelberg (1883), online resource (VIII, 428 pp.), ISBN 978-3- 642-91504-8 .
Fischer, Dagmar; Breitenbach, Jörg (ed.): The pharmaceutical industry - insight, perspective, perspectives . Spektrum Akademischer Verlag 2003, 280 pp., ISBN 3-8274-1374-5 .
Harry Auterhoff , Joachim Knabe (editor): Textbook of pharmaceutical chemistry: with 144 tables / lim. By Harry Auterhoff , 12th, completely revised. Ed. By Joachim Knabe and Hans-Dieter Höltje, Stuttgart: Wiss. Verl.-Gesellschaft 1991, ISBN 3-8047-1075-1 .
Wolfgang Schneider : History of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Weinheim 1972.

Web links

Portal of Pharmaceutical Chemistry (English)

Individual evidence

^ Christoph Friedrich: Horst Böhme - an important pharmaceutical chemist , Pharmazeutische Zeitung 153 (2008) 88-90.
^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1227.

[Friedrich-1] Christoph Friedrich: Horst Böhme - an important pharmaceutical chemist , Pharmazeutische Zeitung 153 (2008) 88-90.

[2] Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1227.