FARB1200 Organic Chemistry Course description

Supervision sessions with an internal and/or external supervisor. The students can complete the project individually or in a group of up to five students.

The projects are chosen/assigned at the start of the semester.

The following coursework is compulsory and must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• The course starts with a compulsory Orientation Meeting.
• A project outline that describes how the group will organise their work on the project.
• A standard learning agreement must be entered into between the project provider/supervisor and the student(s), and this must be approved by the internal supervisor before the project can begin.
• Three minutes of meetings from the supervision meetings held during the project period.

The deadline for submitting the project outline and the minutes of the meetings will be presented in the teaching plan, which is made available at the beginning of the semester.

After completing the course, the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student;

• can explain structures and properties of important functional groups in active pharmaceutical ingredients
• can explain the connection between organic molecules’ chemical structure and reactivity
• can explain the concepts of resonance, isometry and stereochemical ratios, including identifying the chiral centres in active pharmaceutical ingredients and naming the correct stereochemistry
• can explain key types of reactions and reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry

Skills

The student;

• can carry out chemical synthesis of simple active pharmaceutical ingredients under supervision
• can conduct selected chemical experiments, and interpret and present experimental data from selected organic chemistry experiments
• can identify simple organic compounds based on their NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance - spectroscopic data)
• can use IR (infrared spectroscopy), thin-layer chromatography and gas chromatography as methods of identification under supervision

General competence ;

The student

• can demonstrate an understanding of important functional groups in organic chemistry, organic chemical structures and theory of reactions with a focus on pharmaceuticals

The course consists of the following subject areas, specified below with the number of credits:

• Organic chemistry10 credits

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Grade scale A-F.

Two internal examiners. External examiners are used regularly.

The course builds on computer science courses from the first year of the programme.

Grade scale A-F

All exams are assessed by two examiners. At least 30% of the exam papers will be assessed by an external examiner. The external examiner’s assessment should benefit all the students.

• 10 credits overlap with FARMA1200 Organic Chemistry.