94257 - Innovative Products Design

Learning outcomes

Learning Objectives: At the end of the course the student will be aware of the need of finding alternative chemical products to problematic existing ones and of the use of principles of Green Chemistry for designing and discovering them. He will know how to use computational approaches for designing new alternative chemicals and forecasting their properties. He/she will be aware of the different formulations of chemical substances. The student is expected to be able to: 1. Design new environmentally friendly chemical products applying the principles of green chemistry; 2. Use the principles of structure-properties relationship for designing new products and forecasting their properties; 3. Design formulations for a specific purpose.

Course contents

The CU will be made of three modules with the following contents:

(1) Alternative Green Products

This module will introduce students to the most important features of sustainable green chemical products.

The student will become aware of the principles and general tools of Green Chemistry; of the most important awards for recognizing the successful green chemicals; of the general guide lines for the design of more sustainable and less problematic chemicals.

Moreover, successful important examples of new alternative green products will be presented.

(2) Structure Toxicity Relationship

After completing this module, the student:
- knows how to represent 2D and 3D molecular structures.
- uses of screening methods - know the concept of pharmacophore and how to use it in drug-design and toxicological assessment.
- is able to apply the QSAR and QSPR methods to simple problems, and to the design of new molecules with desired physicochemical properties.

(3) Food and Chemistry

The aim of this module is to give an overview of the formulation of food from its ingredients, and formulation of new foods. In addition, emerging technologies and new tools in processing foods will be analysed and studied.

Readings/Bibliography

Lecture notes will be available for students.

Additional bibliography:

P. V. Petrovic, P. T. Anastas, (2023) "First do No Harm"; Jenny Stanford Publisher.

Anastas, P. (2012) Handbook of Green Chemistry. Wiley

Engel, T. (2018) Applied chemo-informatics: achievements and future opportunities. Wiley

Leach, A. (2001) Molecular modelling: principles and applications. Prentice Hall

Schlick, T. (2010) Molecular Modeling and Simulation. Springer

Teaching methods

The course unit is divided in three modules taught independently at different times in the academic year.

Each module is organized in theoretical classes where main concepts are explained, as well as tutorial classes with discussion of case-study examples

Assessment methods

The D01 module is assessed through Individual report and presentation on a topic related to the module content (50%) and a written test (50%).

The D02 module is assessed through individual report and presentation on a topic related to the module content or a written test.

The D04 module is assessed through a written work assignment.

The Curricular Unit grade will be the arithmetic mean of grades from the three modules.

Teaching tools

Videoprojection

Office hours

See the website of Emilio Tagliavini

See the website of Luca Evangelisti

See the website of Maria Del Carmen Gonzalez Azon