Essentials of Pharmaceutical Chemistry is a chemistry introduction that covers all the core material necessary to provide an understanding of the basic chemistry of drug molecules. Now a core text on many university courses, it contains numerous worked examples and problems.This third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. New additions include: a chapter on Licensing of Drugs and the British Pharmacopoeia, an additional section on techniques of structure elucidation in the spectroscopy chapter, a bibliography of suggested additional reading. Essentials of Pharmaceutical Chemistry will be of particular interest to pharmacy undergraduates and students of chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences.