Pharmaceutical Chemistry 1 Lab BIPH 3121

Course description:

The laboratory section of this course is designed to provide the pharmacy student with a forum in which they can apply theoretical principles described in the lecture portion of the course to situations they will encounter as a pharmacist and/or pharmaceutical scientist.

Course Aims:

  • To provide students with the practical laboratory skills of Pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry.
  • To demonstrate the effect of the different synthetic methodology.
  • To clarify theoretical concepts of chemical synthesis of drug molecules.
  • To give the students experience in handling and proper usage of laboratory glassware, equipment, and chemicals.

Course outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:  
  • Know the general laboratory safety and basic techniques.
  • Develop the ability to suggest suitable techniques to synthesis different drug molecules. 
  • Interpret scientific data and make sound scientific conclusions. 
  • Conduct chemical reactions within medicinal chemistry context this includes. 
  • How to set up chemical instruments and tools in an experiment.
  • How to mix reactants, solvents and reagents within experimental context. 
  • How to isolate and purify reaction products through (not limited to) chromatography, crystallization, distillation.
  • Identification and characterization of the final products through standard chemical.