- Docente: Rita Morigi
- Credits: 7
- SSD: CHIM/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences (cod. 8518)
Learning outcomes
The student will learn the principal spectroscopic and chemical methods for the identification of drugs listed in Eur. Pharmacopoeia.
Course contents
The course is composed by lessons and laboratory exercises. Students will be introduced to the theory and application of analytical chemistry methods to the identification of natural products.
Lessons:
- Compound purity and chemical approaches to functional groups determination
- Physical constants, including melting point, density, refraction, polarimetry, etc.
- Compound solubility and crystallisation
- IR and UV spectroscopy
- Chromatography
Laboratory exercises:
- Qualitative and quantitative analytical approaches to the identification of herbalist compounds
- TLC of several herbalist and essence oils
- Spectroscopy methods, including IR and UV-vis
- Compound solubility, purity, and crystallization
- Chemical approaches to the identification of herbalist compounds
Readings/Bibliography
V. Cavrini, V.Andrisano. PRINCIPI DI ANALISI FARMACEUTICA, ESCULAPIO.
M. D'Ischia. LA CHIMICA ORGANICA IN LABORATORIO, PICCIN.
R. M. Roberts, J.C. Gilbert, S. F. Martin. CHIMICA ORGANICA SPERIMENTALE. ZANICHELLI, BOLOGNA 2003.
Teaching methods
PowerPoint slides and analytical chemistry laboratory.
Assessment methods
An interview for the theoretical part and an evaluation of the laboratory notebook.
Teaching tools
PowerPoint slides and analytical chemistry laboratory equipments.
Office hours
See the website of Rita Morigi
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.