Advances in Drug Research
Contributors: Bernard Testa (Editor); Urs A. Meyer (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: September 15, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780120133284
First sentence: Ever since Louis Pasteur discovered the optical isomerism of tartaric acid over 130 years ago (Drayer, 1993), the significance of stereoisomerism in relation to biological activity has been a topic of much interest to biochemists, chemists and pharmacologists.