Course Catalog

Description

The course gives the student basic knowledge of understanding the chemistry (as well as properties, source/synthesis, reactivity, and detectability) of drugs and auxiliary substances. Procedures of rational selection, preparation, and optimization, quality criteria (incl. analytical methods), structure-affinity- and structure-metabolism relationships yielding a certain therapeutic profile. Biopharmaceuticals, diagnostic drugs, radiopharmaceuticals, antiinfectives (sulfonamides, antibiotics). Practical course on the quantitative determination of drug compounds, using techniques such as neutralization analysis, redox analysis, argentometry, complexometry, and photometry.