PC1005 - Molecular Basis of Therapeutics 1
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
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Available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Pharmacy.
This subject (37 lectures) is in common with CH1002 and builds on the content of CH1001 to provide broad exposure of students to the major principles and reactions of relevance to inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. A major emphasis will continue to be the applicability of chemistry in the wider scientific context, particularly in the biological, biomedical, earth and environmental sciences. <B>Organic Chemistry (13 lectures):</B> General features of organic reactions, reactive intermediates and energetics. Mechanisms and applications of major reaction types: radical substitution, electrophilic addition, nucleophilic substitution at saturated carbon, nucleophilic addition and substitution at carbonyl groups. Electrophilic aromatic substitution. Stereochemistry of hydrocarbons. Spectroscopy and structure determination. <B>Physical Chemistry (12 lectures):</B> What controls reaction rates? Reactions, kinetics and mechanism. Electrochemistry. Fundamentals and applications in industry and nature. Phase equilibria, colligative properties and chemical partitioning applied to environmental, industrial, physiological and biological process. <B>Atomic structure, Bonding and Periodicity (12 lectures):</B> Applications of redox chemistry in industrial processes, an introduction to transition metal chemistry and its involvement in bioinorganic chemistry, spectroscopy with applications in analytical chemistry, and the elucidation of chemical structures.
Learning Outcomes
- develop competence in the application of common laboratory techniques in chemistry, particularly those relevant to the measurement of drug structure and activity;
- in conjunction with Ch1001, to provide the background in key chemical concepts and principles necessary for appropriate understanding of the pharmaceutics, medicinal chemistry and pharmacology subjects in later years of the course.
| Prerequisites: | CH1001 |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | CH1002 |
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| Townsville, , Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 29-Aug-2019 | |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); assignments (10%); laboratory work and reports (30%). |
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