General and Inorganic Chemistry in Medicine

This book is intended for students in medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry, physicians, dentists, pharmacists, biochemists, and more.In General Chemistry, the laws of chemistry, the structure of simple and complex compounds, chemical bonds, solutions, chemical reactions, kinetics, equilibrium, thermodynamics, protolytic and redox processes, and sorption are discussed.In Inorganic Chemistry, chemical elements, inorganic compounds, and their significance for medicine are presented. It is focused on developing metal-based diagnostic and therapeutic agents. The significance of coordination chemistry to modulate enzyme activity is discussed. The production of reactive oxygen species selectively damaging cancer cells is described, too.Short biographies of chemists and scientists, which have rendered services to general and inorganic chemistry in medicine, are given in a person index.