CHEM 330 Medicinal Chemistry (W)
This is a one-semester course in medicinal chemistry. The first part of this course covers introduces students to the field of medicinal chemistry and covers fundamental topics and concepts relating to the properties, design, metabolism, and modeling of pharmaceutical drugs. The remainder of the course is devoted to the major classes of therapeutic drugs with an emphasis on categorizing physiological effects with functional groups and binding site stereochemistry. Laboratory provides students an introduction to computational modeling, experimental design, exploration of drug properties, and the synthesis and evaluation of biologically-active molecules.