Standard syllabus
Medicinal chemistry laboratory · Undergraduate · Chemistry
Learning objectives from the Medicinal chemistry laboratory syllabus, grouped by unit. Click an objective for study materials.
Learning objectives
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Handling drug-like compounds
- Weigh and dissolve small organic quantities safely — Weigh and dissolve small organic quantities safely
- Prepare stock solutions for assays — Prepare stock solutions for assays
- Track purity and identity checks (TLC/IR) — Track purity and identity checks (TLC/IR)
- Follow heightened safety for actives — Follow heightened safety for actives
- Notebook standards for medicinal labs — Notebook standards for medicinal labs
Assay and binding demos
- Run a teaching enzyme or binding assay if available — Run a teaching enzyme or binding assay if available
- Include vehicle and positive controls — Include vehicle and positive controls
- Plot dose-response style data carefully — Plot dose-response style data carefully
- Discuss potency language vs lecture definitions — Discuss potency language vs lecture definitions
- Avoid overclaiming biological significance — Avoid overclaiming biological significance
Simple ADME-related property labs
- LogP/solubility teaching measurements (intro) — LogP/solubility teaching measurements (intro)
- pKa or ionization demos when scheduled — pKa or ionization demos when scheduled
- Stability in buffer over time — Stability in buffer over time
- Relate properties to medicinal chemistry heuristics — Relate properties to medicinal chemistry heuristics
- Compare two analogs on one property — Compare two analogs on one property
Medicinal lab reporting
- SAR-style table from class analogs — SAR-style table from class analogs
- Figure discipline for assay curves — Figure discipline for assay curves
- Ethics and safety notes for bioactive compounds — Ethics and safety notes for bioactive compounds
- Short recommendation memo from data — Short recommendation memo from data
- Connect each result to a lecture concept — Connect each result to a lecture concept
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- Mixed Practice
- Multi-Unit Problems
- Review
- Practice test
- Answer key
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