Module CHEM4211: BIOACTIVE CHEMISTRY 4

Department: Chemistry

CHEM4211: BIOACTIVE CHEMISTRY 4

Prerequisites

• Bioactive Chemistry 3 (CHEM3211), Advanced Organic Chemistry (CHEM3031) AND Biological Chemistry (CHEM2051).

Corequisites

• Research Skills (CHEM4081).

Excluded Combination of Modules

• Core Chemistry 4 (CHEM4311) AND Contemporary Chemistry (CHEM4321).

Aims

• To build on material taught at level three and provide students with an advanced overview of more specialised areas.

Content

• Modern synthetic methodology.
• Principles of enantioselective synthesis.
• Applied organic synthesis.
• Medicinal chemistry OR Macromolecular chemistry.

Learning Outcomes

• appreciate the problems involved in target synthesis of organic molecules, apply retrosynthetic analysis to their synthesis and make an informed judgement as to the most suitable reagent for a particular transformation;
• describe and explain strategies for the synthesis of enantiopure compounds;
• rationalise known synthetic routes to complex organic molecules;
• After attending the medicinal chemistry lecture courses, students should be able to:
• classify drugs according to their site and mode of action and critically discuss the relationships between structure and activity;
• describe methods by which drugs may be discovered, optimised and formulated;
• use molecular modelling packages to predict the mode of action of certain classes of compounds;
• After attending the macromolecular chemitry lecture courses, students should be able to:
• understand the quantitative description of the three dimensional distribution of polymer molecules and use this description to explain retractive forces in elastomers;
• distinguish between major synthetic routes to polymer molecules and describe the characteristic features of each;
• distinguish between amorphous and semi-crystalline polymers and identify molecular features that promote crystallinity. Explain the role of non-metal and transition metal based reagents and catalysts in organic synthesis.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Facts and new concepts are introduced in the lecture courses.
• Students' knowledge is tested by examination.
• Undergraduates are aided in the learning process by workshops where they attempt sample problems and office hours where staff are available to answer any queries about the lecture courses.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Workshop problems.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University