Learning objectives
<br />The purpose of the course is to provide students with basic knowledge regarding the techniques of extraction, purification and identification of health-related substances.
Course unit content
<br />Introductory part covering safety and injury prevention issues: general norms for laboratory procedures. <br /><br /><br />Primary methods of isolation and purification: extraction using solvents, crystallisation, distillation, chromatographic methods. <br /><br /><br />General structural survey information and methods: characterisation and identification of substances. <br /><br /><br />Experimental part with lab work that will include isolation, purification and identification of known substances.
Bibliography
<br />D. PAVIA, G. LAMPMAN, G. KRIZ: 'Il laboratorio di chimica organica', Ed. Italiana a cura di P. Grunanger, D. Pocar. Sorbona, Milano.<br />VOGEL's: 'Textbook of Pratical Organic Chemistry'. Longman, London.<br />E. BENEDETTI, V. CUCINOTTA, P. GIANNETTO: 'Chimica in laboratorio', Ed. Grasso, Bologna