How does organic chemistry relate to pharmacology?

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Nripinder
Jun 26, 2016

Organic chemistry deals with chemical compounds containing carbon and many of the pharmaceutically active substances contain carbon

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Organic chemistry involves study of compounds containing carbon, and also design, synthesis and analysis of the properties of these compounds. Since many pharmaceutically active molecules are either designed to be or found to be analogues of biologically known molecules, therefore Pharamcology bears a close relation with organic chemistry

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