The medicinal chemistry or pharmaceutical chemistry is a scientific discipline with the intersection of the Chimie and Pharmacologie, the purpose of which is to synthesize and develop medicinal products. Chemistry médecinale includes/understands the identification, the synthesis and the development of active substances for a therapeutic use.

Chemistry médecinale is a highly interdisciplinary science which mixes the Organic chemistry, the Biochimie, the numerical Chimie, the Pharmacologie, the Pharmacognosie, the Molecular biology, the Statistique S and the physical Chimie.