Medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry are disciplines that work at the intersection of chemistry, particularly synthetic organic chemistry, and pharmacology and other biological specialties, where they are involved in the design, chemical synthesis, and development of pharmaceutical agents, or bio-active molecules.
Organic compounds are the most common type of substance utilised in medicine. In particular, medicinal chemistry in its most common form—focusing on small organic molecules—includes synthetic organic chemistry and aspects of natural products, as well as computational chemistry in close collaboration with chemical biology, enzymology, and structural biology, all with the goal of discovering and developing new therapeutic agents. In practise, it entails chemical aspects of identification, followed by systematic, complete synthetic modification of novel chemical entities to make them acceptable for therapeutic application. It encompasses the synthetic and computational components of studying current medications and agents under development in respect to their bioactivities (biological activities and qualities), i.e., understanding their structure-activity correlations (SAR). Pharmaceutical chemistry is concerned with the quality of medications and the appropriateness of medical products for their intended use.
At the biological interface, medicinal chemistry combines to form a set of highly interdisciplinary sciences, emphasising organic, physical, and computational emphases alongside biological areas such as biochemistry, molecular biology, pharmacognosy and pharmacology, toxicology, and veterinary and human medicine; these, in conjunction with project management, statistics, and pharmaceutical business practises, systematically oversee altering identified chemical agents such that after phasing

Following are the Instruments/Equipments available with Pharmaceutical Chemistry department in our college;
Analytical Balances, Digital balance (1 and 10mg sensitivity), Vacuum Pump, Distillation Unit, UV- Visible Spectrophotometer, Flame Photometer, HPLC, Potentiometer etc