Medicinal Chemistry: A branch of chemistry concerned with the discovery, design, synthesis, and investigation of biologically active compounds and reactions that these compounds undergo in living things.

 

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Medicinal Chemistry: A branch of chemistry concerned with the discovery, design, synthesis, and investigation of biologically active compounds and reactions that these compounds undergo in living things.

Photochemistry: The study of chemical changes caused by light. For example, many of the key reactions that generate smog are photochemical.

Organic Chemistry: The study of compounds that contain carbon chemically bound to hydrogen, including synthesis, identification, modelling, and reactions of those compounds.

Physical Chemistry: A branch of chemistry that studies chemical phenomena from a physical and mathematical perspective. Physical chemistry includes chemical thermodynamics, kinetics, spectroscopy, quantum chemi . . . View Full Definition

Phytochemistry: The study of substances found in plants. 'Phytochemicals' are materials extracted from plant tissue.

Thermochemistry: The study of heat absorbed or released during chemical changes.

Stereochemistry: Stereochemistry is the study of how the properties of a compound are affected by the spatial positions of groups within its molecules. Stereochemistry is also concerned with determining the . . . View Full Definition

Medicinal: A detrimental coffee taste sensation characterized by a penetrating sour sensation on the posterior sides of the tongue. Caused by alkaloids increasing the sourness of the acids without any . . . View Full Definition

Computational Chemistry: A branch of chemistry concerned with the prediction or simulation of chemical properties, structures, or processes using numerical techniques.

Chemistry: The study of matter and its transformations. See What is chemistry? For other definitions.