Importancia de la quimica

UNIVESIDAD AUTONOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN

PREPARATORIA #7

SEMESTER: August-December

CHEMISTRY 1

Essay

Activity IV.1

The importance of chemistry


Importance of chemistry on thedevelopment of the modern world
We are going to talk about why is chemistry important in the present society, and how does it helps us in the daily life.
First we will see the advances in medicine thatchemistry has made.
One of the most important issues of discovery medicinal chemistry today is the continuing need for excellent synthetic chemists, feel Dr Ramaiah Muthyala and Dr Akella VenkateswarluMedicinal chemistry represents the design and discovery of new compounds that are suitable for use as drugs. The discovery of a new drug is not confined to include design and synthesis, but also thedevelopment of testing methods and procedures needed to establish how a substance operates in the body and its suitability for use as a drug. Drug discovery may also require fundamental research intothe biological and chemical nature of the disease state.
Drug design has received a big boost from disciplines such as combinatorial chemistry, automated synthesis and compound purification andidentification.
However, success in this arena still requires skilled medicinal chemists who make correct choices about which ‘hits’ are likely to play out as true ‘lead’ structures. These choices areoften made with insights gleaned from interactions with computational chemists, structural biologists and a host of other disciplines. Even though the lead structure will have a long road ahead, it isexpected that on the way it will meet a plethora of hurdles to survive to become a successful drug.
Many new technologies such as rapid analog synthesis, open access liquid chromatography, massspectrometry and high speed automated high-performance liquid chromatography etc are now facilitating medicinal chemists. Their main aim has been to shorten the cycle time of synthetic operations. Because...