Top 200 Drugs... from chemistry notes

As my boss pointed out earlier this month, the Njardarson group (Cornell) currently has a listing of the 2006 top 200 generic and brand name drugs with structures. You can download the pdf files for your own pleasure or have them blown up to poster size as my group did. (The posters currently reside in our group breakroom, so that even at lunchtime, we never totally leave the realm of medicinal chemistry). It's amazing how many of the drugs that I recognized by name--and of course now it is handy to know their structure. Who knew that the estradiol analog found in many birth control pills contains an alkyne (ethinyl estradiol) that (according to wikipedia) was apparently key in creating a compound resistant to degradation by the liver? Or that the brand name drug Klor-Con (#153 on the list), which made $160,000,000 last year is actually only KCl?