Course code:
1411B		 Course name:
Chemistry of Natural Products

Academic year:

2012/2013.

Attendance requirements:

1201B

ECTS:

12

Study level:

basic academic studies

Study program:

Biochemistry: 2. year, summer semester, compulsory course

Teacher:

Zoran M. Vujčić, Ph.D.
full professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Assistants:

Jelena M. Aćimović, Ph.D.
research associate, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Marija M. Stojadinović, Ph.D.
assistant professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Hours of instruction:

Weekly: four hours of lectures + seven hours of labwork (4+0+7)

Goals:

The aim of the course is to teach students basic principles of isolation, purification, identification, characterization and structural analysis of the most important groups of natural products. This includes getting knowledge about the basic roles of specific compounds in the organisms from which they originate. The other goal is to train students in experimental skills such as isolation, purification and characterization of selected natural products.

Outcome:

At the end of the course students will be familiar with basic theoretical and experimental knowledge in isolation, purification, identification, characterization and structural analysis of the most important groups of natural products and their basic roles in the organisms from which they originate.

Teaching methods:

Lectures, experimental exercises, theoretical excercise, calculus, tutorial.

Extracurricular activities:

Beside adopting theoretical knowledge during lectures, student is required to pass 5 tests; to collect and process the literature in agreement with subject professor and to write tutorial which he/she will publicly defend.

Coursebooks:

1. Stephen P. Stanforth: Natural product chemistry at a glance, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006.

2. Satyajit D. Sarker. Lutfun Nahar: Chemistry for Pharmacy Students, General, Organic and Natural Product Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2007. (p. 283-370)

3. Raphael Ikan (Ed): Selected topics in the chemistry of natural products, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd, 2008.

Additional material:

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  Course activities and grading method

Lectures:

0 points (4 hours a week)

Labwork:

0 points (7 hours a week)

Colloquia:

10 points

Written exam:

30 points

Oral exam:

40 points

Tutorial:

20 points