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DDPM 202 - Pharmaceutics for Small Molecules and Macromolecules: Ingredients

This guide presents the databases for use with the DDPM class for the reverse engineering project.

Resources

SciFinder Scholar: This is a great place to start looking for information about your drug product’s active ingredients, formulation, and excipients because it covers the chemical literature and patent literature. Patents are great sources for information on chemistry as well as manufacturing processes.

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US Pharmacopeia  General Chapters contain analytical standards, assays and quality control information. Monographs contain Drug "recipes."  Try General Chapter 1151, "Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms."  Print editions are available at WongAvery Library, in the Reference collection (Ref QV738 AA1 P536).  Also create an account to get chapters online at USP Access Point

FDA Drug Databases: find package inserts and much more.

PubChem is the world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information.