Thermodynamics & its Importance to Pharmaceuticals

Motion Power of Heat

can predict whether a certain reaction will proceed and its yield 

Pharmaceutical Relevance

• partitioning of solute between immiscible solvents 
• solubility of drugs 
• micellisation 
• drug-receptor binding 
• drug-excipient interactions 
• phase transitions 
• predicting position of equilibirum in a system
• energy changes during a reaction 

Chemical Systems 

• system- part of the…