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Chemistry: An Introduction for Medical and Health Sciences provides students and practitioners with a clear, readable introduction to the chemical terms and concepts that are relevant to their study and practice. Assuming little prior knowledge of the subject the book describes and explains the chemistry underlying many of the most commonly prescribed drugs and medicines. It also includes information on chemical aspects of digestion and nutrition, oxidation, radioactivity and an overview of how chemicals fight disease. Excellent pedagogy including learning objectives, diagnostic tests and questions in each chapter and a comprehensive glossary Experienced author team with many years experience of teaching chemistry to non-chemists

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Introduction and how to use the book
• Chapter 1 Starting chemistry
• 1.1 Terminology and processes used in chemistry
• 1.2 Atoms and things
• 1.3 Chemical reactions and the Periodic Table
• Chapter 2 Covalent Compounds and Organic Molecules
• 2.1 How to make stable molecules
• 2.2 Covalent compounds
• 2.3 General Properties of Covalent Compounds
• 2.4 Characteristic shapes and bond angles within covalent molecules
• 2.5 Some Covalent bonds with slight ionic character
• 2.6 Double bonded Carbon Compounds or unsaturated bonds
• 2.7 Some further compounds of carbon
• 2.8 The carbon cycle
• 2.9 Isomerism. Some Different arrangements of atoms within a molecule
• 2.10 Naming Organic compounds
• 2.11 Ring Structures
• 2.12 Compounds of carbon containing other groups
• 2.13 Some further examples with explanations
• Chapter 3 Organic compounds containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. alcohols and ethers
• 3.1 Alcohols, C n H 2n+1 OH
• 3.2 Properties of monohydric alcohols (one oh group)
• 3.3 Other alcohols. di and tri hydric alcohols (two and three oh groups)
• 3.4 Aromatic oh compounds, phenols
• 3.5 Ethers as isomers of alcohols
• Chapter 4 Carbonyl Compounds, compounds containing C=O group
• 4.1 Aldehydes and Ketones; Carboxylic acids and esters
• 4.2 Carbohydrates or mono-saccharides
• 4.3 Di-saccharides
• 4.4 Digestion of sugars
• 4.5 More about sugars
• 4.6 Carboxylic acids
• 4.7 Salts and esters
• 4.8 Lipids or fats
• 4.9 Chemical energy in cells
• 4.10 Chemicals in Food
• 4.11 Soaps
• Chapter 5 Organic compounds containing nitrogen
• 5.1 Amines and Amino acids
• 5.2 #1

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