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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Spring 2022 |
Registration ID | CHEMH355G001 |
Course Title | Topics in Advanced Organic Chemistry: Pharmaceutical Chemistry |
Credit | 0.50 |
Department | Chemistry |
Instructor | Spoors,Paul |
Times and Days | MWF 10:30am-11:30am
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Room Location | HLS108 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1896 Three lectures. Variable content, depending on the interests of students and faculty. Topics are selected in consultation with students electing the course. Previous topics have been modern synthetic methods, asymmetric synthesis, natural product chemistry, biosynthesis, chemistry of coenzymes, combinatorial approaches to synthesis, free radical chemistry, organic photochemistry, organometallic chemistry.; Prerequisite(s): Chemistry H225.; Enrollment Limit: 30 Natural Science (; Hav: NA) The overall goal of this course in the first half of Spring 2022 is to teach the student the development path of an active substance discovered in medicinal chemistry to a commercial drug. It will focus heavily on organic chemistry but will weave in other disciplines in the pharmaceutical fields to allow the student to understand the different disciplines that sit on a project team. The course will discuss the design of new chemistry routes to active molecules (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients – API). The course will describe the benefit and utility of many organic reactions and how they are employed to make medicines that benefit humankind. The course will engage the student with the physical properties of these biological active molecules and the organic chemistry of their metabolism. An understanding of organic chemistry is a fundamental requirement for this course. If you are curious about what is involved to turn a biologically active molecule into a drug and if you are curious about what it takes to develop a drug for commercialization, then this course is designed to give your insight into this complex story. |
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