Physicochemical Principles of Pharmacy provides basic information on physicochemical properties of drugs in order to allow the reader to understand, recognize, and predict the behavior of the drugs before and during their transit through the body.
Each chapter is introduced with a brief description of the extent of the material covered, emphasizing the importance of its content in relation to pharmaceutical sciences – a clear and nicely written invitation to go over the material. Whenever equations are described within the context of each chapter, examples with practical calculations are given in order to familiarize the reader with the use of the parameters and their units. Graphs and tables are used to help explain the dynamic of the processes and to compare those processes across different chemical groups of compounds. Also, the main concepts and equations are highlighted throughout the chapters with the aid of small summary boxes.
At the end of the chapters the authors finalize with a recap of the most important concepts in a bullet-summary format followed by a list of review articles published on the different covered matters under references.
This book brings together the importance of the physicochemical principles in terms of formulation and quality control, and the final goal of pharmacy assistance, which is to ensure the delivery of the drug to its site of action and promote a safe and desired response. This book provides the student with all the main tools necessary to understand the broad scope of the pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences. I highly recommend this book as a good addition to a pharmacy library and should be considered as a textbook for advanced students in pharmacy practice and as a reference book for undergraduate courses in the pharmaceutical sciences field.