Ateneo - UPO

The students are introduced to the main functional groups and heterocycles, their electronic properties and reactivity. Selected examples of synthetic routes to pharmaceutical and cosmetic compounds are illustrated. The theoretical knowledge is applied in the laboratory by setting up a set of reactions and purifying the corresponding products. The synthesis leads to the preparation of a dermatological API that will be then formulated during the formulation laboratory in the second semester.

Practical Organic Synthesis: A student’s guide; R. Keese, M. P. Brandle, T. P. Toube; Wiley. Advanced Practical Organic chemistry, J. Leonard, B. Lygo, G. Procter Organic Chemistry; Smith J.G.; McGraw Hill

The course aims at providing students with adequate theoretical and practical information for organic synthesis.

Basic knowledge of organic chemistry.

The course makes use of lectures, exercises and laboratory activities.

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The exam mark will be the average mark obtained for each module: Theory: The students will be divided in groups and each group will have to present two projects in the form of a Powerpoint presentation: one relating to an organic chemistry topic and one relating to the analysis of a synthetic strategy of a product for pharmaceutical and/or cosmetic use. Practice: (i) The written test covers the material delivered in lectures and seminars and is made of multiple-choice questions and an exercise. For multiple choice questions, 1 point will be obtained for the correct answer, whereas wrong or blank answers will be evaluated 0 points. The laboratory evaluation considers the commitment, the performance of the student in the laboratory, and the lab notebook writing.

Theory: - Main functional groups and their reactivity - Methods for functional groups interconversion Practice: - The main safety principles - The main techniques used for the synthesis and purification of organic compounds (reaction setup, product isolation and purification) During the laboratory, the performed synthesis will lead to the preparation of a dermatological API that will be then formulated during the formulation laboratory in the second semester.

At the end of the course, the student will be able to: - Recognize the main functional groups and predict their reactivity - Interconvert the main functional groups by using classical organic methods - Set up a reaction starting from a procedure taken from the literature, monitor it and purify the product