Pharmaceutical Chemistry 1 - SFB1012

Assessment 1: Practice exam/test

Tutorial sessions and will give formative experience of exam-style questions; formative tests will be run prior to summative mid-module tests;

Practice exam/test

Assessment 2: Written practice exercise

A formative practical report will be used to give students experience and feedback on laboratory report writing.  

Written practice exercise 

Assessment 3: Exam

Exam 

Assessment 2: Performance Assessment

Problem-solving exercises by MCQ, 1 hour of effort for each of the four tasks is allocated

Performance Assessment 

Assessment 1: Written Assignment

Data entry into pro-forma. 1 hour of effort for each of the four tasks is allocated

Written Assignment 

This module will lay the foundations for the study of those aspects of chemistry that are necessary in order to understand the science behind the discovery and use of medicines of chemical synthetic and plant/natural origin.
The importance of physicochemical principles and the use of physical and chemical tests and analytical methods (principles, design, development and application) will include an introduction to infra-red, ultra-violet and mass spectrometry and also NMR. 
In the second half of the module, the chemistry and properties of the principal functional groups will be considered to highlight how physical, chemical and drug properties can be predicted.

School of Applied Sciences

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Chemical Sciences

SFB1012 - Pharmaceutical Chemistry 1

Pharmaceutical Chemistry 1

illustrate the principles of organic synthesis and transformation as applied to biological molecules in living systems and in substances used as the therapeutic components of medicines

recognise the roles that chemical, physical and spectroscopic analysis play in the isolation, purification and identification of substances used in medicine

discuss specification standards described in Pharmacopoeias, especially the BP

describe the factors which determine the reactivity, behaviour, physical, chemical and drug properties of organic molecules used in medicine and occurring in living systems

effectively plan and safely undertake chemical synthetic processes, isolation and purification of substances of plant origin, purification of substances of chemical synthetic origin, chemical and physical tests and spectroscopic analysis in classroom and laboratory settings.

use molecular structures to make predictions regarding chemical and biological properties and use this knowledge to enable the writing of basic chemical and biological reaction mechanisms and equations

discuss how pharmaceutical chemistry is used in the synthesis, structure, discovery, design, manufacture and reactivity of drug molecules, and in selected biochemical, metabolic and physiological processes