This comprehensive workbook helps readers become familiar with the structures and synthetic challenges associated with nearly 300 essential medicines and gain the skills needed for pharmaceutical development.

• Highlights nearly three hundred medicines on the latest World Health Organization (WHO) Model List of Essential Medicines and their manufacturing routes
• Features exercises that equip students with the skills necessary to solve similar real-world problems
• Includes a retrosynthetic analysis for each commodity chemical and supplies an extensive list of key journal and information sites and a library of reagents, solvents, and conditions for many common organic reactions

Peter J. Harrington, PhD, is the owner and primary consultant for Better Pharma Processes LLC, Boulder, Colorado, USA. Dr. Harrington is a pharmaceutical process design and development expert with more than twenty years’ experience in timely process innovation for major pharmaceuticals. His publications include a book on pharmaceutical process chemistry for synthesis and several articles on organic and medicinal chemistry.