2023-2024 Undergraduate General Catalog


CHEM 330 Medicinal Chemistry (W)

This is a one-semester course in medicinal chemistry. The first part of this course 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. Other course activities provide students with an introduction to project development/design, analysis of current disciplinary literature, and training in several types of scientific writing.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

CHEM 305