Course Catalog

Description

This course is a continuation of phytochemistry I that covers the therapeutic and pharmaceutical value of medicinal plants, the relevant chemical structures and the biosynthetic origin, methods of extraction, separation, purification, classification, and quantification. Metabolites of natural products, their significance, therapeutic, and pharmaceutical value, their biosynthetic origin: glycosides, saponins (separation and identification techniques), sugars (mono, disaccharides, polysaccharides) and bitter principles, their properties and therapeutic values. Chromatography and its application in the analysis of medicinal plant constituents; practical applications of major methods.