Pharmaceutical Substances: Combination Book & CD-ROM

Thieme is pleased to announce the availability of a new edition of Pharmaceutical Substances. A project developed by Georg Thieme Verlag in collaboration with FIZ Chemie GmbH. The 4th edition has been revised and expanded to include an additional 96 significant pharmaceutical compounds, providing a compendium of over 2200 pharmaceutical ingredients of interest to the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

Pharmaceutical Substances is designed to be a complete reference guide to every pharmaceutical compound of significance. It is essential as a first point of reference not only for specialists in drug chemistry but also for anyone involved in the synthesis or use of pharmaceuticals.

All compounds are organized alphabetically according to their International Nonproprietary Name (INN), for added ease of use the book features 4 additional indexes:

- Trade Names

- Intermediates

- Enzymes, Micro-organisms, Plants and Animal Tissues

- Substances Classes

The CD-ROM allows field, full text and index searching. It includes a browse function to allow you to peruse the data alphabetically by INN. It will be updated annually with 50 to 100 new compounds.

Description of each compound includes:

- Chemical structure

- Graphical representation of synthetic route including intermediates

- Nomenclature: INN standard, trivial names, synonyms

- CAS registry number

- ATC codes

- Medical applications/Therapeutic category

- Toxicological data

- Patent number, origin, holder and expiry date

- Commercial information

- Bibliographic information including CASSI codes