SYNTHESIS AND PHARMACOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF SOME CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKER THIOSALICYLAMIDE DERIVATIVES AS ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS
About Author:
ABHISHAK SINGH PARMAR,
M.PHARMACY (MEDICINAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY),
B.R.NAHATA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY,
MANDSAUR (M.P).
*abhishakparmar@gmail.com
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Medicinal and Pharmaceutical chemistry
It is a discipline at the intersection of chemistry and pharmacology involved with designing, synthesizing and developing pharmaceutical drugs. Medicinal chemistry involves the identification, synthesis and development of new chemical entities suitable for therapeutic use. It also includes the study of existing drugs, their biological properties, and their quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR). Pharmaceutical chemistry is focused on quality aspects of medicines and aims to assure fitness for the purpose of medicinal products. Compounds used as medicines are overwhelmingly organic compounds including small organic molecules and biopolymers. However, inorganic compounds and metal-containing compounds have been found to be useful as drugs. For example, the cis-platin series of platinum-containing complexes have found use as anti-cancer agents.1