Courses Handbook 2009

310636 (v.1) Pharmaceutical Chemistry 201


Area: School of Pharmacy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.5
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2.25 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x .25 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 7024 (v.5) Chemistry 122 or any previous version
Syllabus: Electromagnetic radiation and its interaction with matter, spectrophotometric analytical techniques. The concepts of pH, pKa and ionisation and their application in a pharmaceutical context. Reaction orders and reaction kinetics. Stereochemistry. Functional group chemistry and its role in drug structure, character and degradation. Important pharmaceutical-chemical laboratory techniques.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 010500 Chemical Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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