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PHC 401 Medicinal Chemistry I

400 levelMedical & Health Sciences10 topics

PHC 401 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Oxidising and reducing reagents in medicinal chemistry
  2. Heterocyclic chemistry of 5- and 6-membered rings
  3. Photochemistry: excited species and their fate
  4. Photostability testing of drugs and product stability
  5. Physicochemical factors affecting drug action (pKa, ionisation)
  6. Receptor site theories
  7. Conformation and ring shapes
  8. Effect of stereochemistry on biological activity
  9. Synthesis, stereochemistry and assay of steroids and steroid hormones
  10. The vitamins: synthesis and stereochemistry

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Oxidising and reducing reagents in medicinal chemistry

This topic focuses on the meaning, behaviour, and medicinal relevance of oxidising and reducing reagents. For exam success, you must understand what oxidation and reduction mean in organic and biological contexts, recognise common reagent roles, and explain why redox behaviour matters in drug action, stability, metabolism, and formulation.

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