The course aims to provide students with the knowledge and understanding of the chemical methodologies and instrumental techniques used in the qualitative identification. The course also aims to provide students with the ability to use the knowledge and understanding gained in solving experimental problems through individual practical training in the laboratory. At the end of the course the student will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in relation to: a) safety in the chemico-pharmaceutical laboratory; b) experimental protocols for the qualitative identification of an unknown organic or organo-metallic compound, by means of its general reactivity, of the reactivity of its functional groups and the analysis of the physico-chemical and spectral properties; c) experimental methods for the determination of physico-chemical properties of pharmaceutical interest. The student will be able to apply the knowledge and understanding acquired through the qualitative identification of unknown substances of pharmaceutical interest by evaluating the general reactivity and the reactivity of the embedded functional groups, the experimental determination of physico-chemical properties of unknown substances.