Bookeditors, W. Cary Mobley, PhD, RPh, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics,
... Show More College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, Mansoor M. Amiji, PhD, RPh, Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, Thomas J. Cook, PhD, RPh, Freelance Medical and Scientific Writer, New York, New York.
Summary: "Designed as the core textbook for the required physical pharmacy or pharmaceutics course within the pharmacy school curriculum. With a focus on examples from pharmacy practice, this book presents the chemical and physical chemical principles fundamental to the development of medication dosage forms. Numerous case studies present relevant examples of physical chemical principles in current pharmacy practice.
Contents:
Introduction to biopharmaceutics
States of matter related to pharmaceutical formulations
Physical properties of solutions
Ionic equilibria and buffers
Solubility, dissolution, and partitioning
Mass transport
Complexation and protein binding
Dispersed systems
Interfacial phenomena
Rheology
Chemical kinetics of pharmaceuticals
Appendix : basic mathematical concepts.