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Unit Code: PHM511

Unit Name: Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Description: Pharmaceutical chemistry encompasses all the major areas of chemistry at undergraduate level relevant to equip students with knowledge and skills needed in fields such as Pharmaceutics, Medicinal Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Pharmacology and Biochemistry. Course content include but are not limited to: error calculations and reaction aspects of organic chemistry, kinetics, thermodynamics and introduction to drug design. The importance of this unit apart from it being the backbone to Medicinal chemistry, is that students learn the major reactions which helps them better understand the consequences of mixing chemicals/drugs, helps them understand about different bonds and their stability in different media to reactions with other functional groups. Hence providing them with better understanding on importance aspects of drug design and drug metabolism.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, the students will be able to: 1. Calculate errors in analytical chemistry and explain the significance of error calculations in basics of research 2. Explain the kinetics of chemical reactions and discuss the factors affecting kinetics. 3. Explain paramagnetism and diamagnetism for chemical species in terms of molecular orbitals. 4. Discuss the factors influencing solubility of materials and explain the use of the concept of solubility on chemical. 5. Explain the spontaneous and non-spontaneity of chemical reactions through equations of thermodynamics. 6. Explain the basic principles of organic chemistry reactions with integration of chemical reactions. 7. Discuss the chemistry of important pharmaceutical organic compounds. 8. Describe the methods of drug design. 9. Explain drug metabolism.

Prerequisite: Pass in Year 13 examination (or equivalent) and as per Minimum Entry Requirement (MER).

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 30

Offered In: Semester 1,2