Course Category:
Department Elective Course
This course focuses on the classification of medicinal plants, ways of identifying their chemical constituents, methods of separation. The course involves also a study of the physico-chemical properties of the natural pure compounds, methods of structure determination (MS, NMR, IR, UV).
The experimental part of this course involves a study of natural chemical groups such as fluorides, glycosides, volatile and fixed oils, ways of their identification and evaluation according to accredited pharmaceutical rules.