Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

PCH 301 — Organic Pharmaceutical Chemistry

PCH department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• synthesis and relate functional groups of compounds to physical and chemical properties and the application of these groups in Pharmacy
• write the structure and discuss the chemistry of heterocyclic compounds especially those being used as drugs and Pharmaceuticals; and
• synthesise some drugs

Course contents

Reactivity of organic compounds. General review of the concept of aromaticity in benzene and how this affects substitution in such structures. General review of organic reactions leading to interconversion and modification of functional groups through nucleophilic and electrophilic substitution, elimination, addition and rearrangement…

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study PCH 301.

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