Course Code: ER20-12P

75 Hours (3 Hours/week)

Scope: This course is designed to impart basic training and hands-on experiences to synthesis chemical substances used as drugs and pharmaceuticals. Also, to perform the quality control tests, impurity testing, test for purity and systematic qualitative analysis of chemical substances used as drugs and pharmaceuticals.

Course Objectives: This course will provide the hands-on experience on the following aspects of chemical substances used as drugs and pharmaceuticals

  1. Limit tests and assays of selected chemical substances as per the monograph

  2. Volumetric analysis of the chemical substances

  3. Basics of preparatory chemistry and their analysis

  4. Systematic qualitative analysis for the identification of the chemical drugs


Course Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, the students will be able to

  1. Perform the limit tests for various inorganic elements and report

  2. Prepare standard solutions using the principles of volumetric analysis

  3. Test the purity of the selected inorganic and organic compounds against the monograph standards

  4. Synthesize the selected chemical substances as per the standard synthetic scheme

  5. Perform qualitative tests to systematically identify the unknown chemical substances