313611 (v.1) Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design 322
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| Area: | Department of Chemistry |
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| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Contact Hours: | 6.5 |
| Lecture: | 2 x 1 Hours Weekly |
| Tutorial: | 1 x 1 Hours Fortnightly |
| Laboratory: | 1 x 4 Hours Fortnightly |
| Prerequisite(s): |
312495 (v.2)
Biological Chemistry 321
AND 313600 (v.1) Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design 222 |
| Syllabus: | Drug design, optimising target interactions: structure activity relationships, identifying a pharmacophore, drug optimisation strategies. Drug design, access to the target, improving absorption, making drugs more resistant to degradation and less resistant to drug metabolism, targeting drugs, reducing toxicity and prodrugs. Selected topics in medicinal chemistry including anticancer and opiate drugs. Role of metals in life. Introduction to metal toxicity. Use of metal in therapeutic medicine: radiopharmaceuticals, anti-infective agents, anticancer agents, superoxide dismutase mimics. Synthesis of metal based drugs and structure-properties relationship. Metals for diagnostic imaging: MRI agents, X-ray agents and optical labels. Recent advances and future perspectives in the use of metals in medicine. Laboratory experiments related to the chemistry topics in this unit. |
| Field of Education: | 010500 Chemical Sciences (Narrow Grouping) |
| SOLT (Online) Definitions*: | Not Categorised *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information |
| Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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