Computational Medicinal Chemistry For Drug Discovery

Download or read book Computational Medicinal Chemistry for Drug Discovery written by Patrick Bultinck and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-12-17 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observing computational chemistry's proven value to the introduction of new medicines, Computational Medicinal Chemistry for Drug Discovery offers the techniques most frequently utilized by industry and academia for ligand design. Featuring contributions from more than 50 preeminent scientists, this book surveys molecular structure computation, intermolecular behavior, ligand-receptor interaction, and modeling. It also examines molecular mechanics, semi-empirical methods, wave function-based quantum chemistry, density functional theory, 3-D structure generation, and hybrid methods.