The aims of the course is to provide an overview of various synthetic techniques, extraction procedures and analysis of compounds with potential pharmaceutical interest. Moreover, major objectives are improvement of skill in the technical aspects of laboratory work (i.e. safe handling of chemicals, apparatus/instruments manipulation) and introduction to techniques and procedures important to the successful practice of synthetic organic chemistry in the interface with medicinal chemistry. A major focus of the course will be the multistep synthetic plan, the experimental procedures, and the characterization of small organic molecules, with the goal to design and obtain biologically active compounds. Furthermore, basic informations of the R&D process, as well as of rational drug discovery will be detailed.
The students are invited to develop their communication skills, their ability to learn and make connections between medicinal chemistry and other related discipline, to improve the “multidisciplinary” vision.