Semester/Year: 2/1
Lec.+lab/week: (2+4) hours
This course provides students with different classes of pharmaceutical compounds such as analgesics, CNS depressants, CNS stimulants, antimicrobial and antifungal agents, antihistamines and oral antibiotics. The major pharmacological and medicinal uses, physicochemical properties with emphasis on chemical structure and mode of action, identity tests and methods of quantitative analysis will be discussed. The practical part of this course deals with chemical assay, titrimetric and instrumental methods of analysis. Practical hours are included.