By Daniel Lednicer

The time period steroid has turn into nearly synonymous with drug abuse in recreation to nearly all of the general public. notwithstanding those steroids - androgens - really include just a unmarried rather small classification of biologically lively steroids, and are overshadowed by way of a wide number of compounds, a huge variety of that are advertisement medicines that proportion an analogous structural carbon skeleton. the advance of those medicines has resulted in a wide physique of natural chemistry frequently denoted as "Steroid Chemistry".

Steroid Chemistry At A Glance offers a concise assessment of the most rules and reactions of steroid chemistry. issues lined include:

• history, isolation and constitution decision of steroids
• steroid nomenclature and stereochemistry
• natural resources of steroids
• synthesis and reactions of fragrant a-ring steroids, androstanes, and pregnanes
• steroids with a spirolactone at place 17
• steroids with hetrocyclic ring A
• compounds derived from cholesterol

Based at the hugely profitable and pupil pleasant "at a look" strategy, the knowledge is gifted in built-in, self contained double web page spreads of textual content and illustrative fabric. scholars of chemistry and pharmacy utilizing Steroid Chemistry at a Glance will locate they've got a source with which they could quick, concisely and hopefully collect, usually overview and revise the fundamental evidence that underpin the homes, synthesis and reactions of this crucial classification of normal items. it's going to additionally function a convenient bench reference for postgraduates chemists.