Exam

The coursework will be based on the lab practical classes.

Report

Techniques used for the extraction of natural products, chromatographic techniques for the isolation and purification of compounds and spectroscopic techniques for the identification of compounds. 

Extraction: Liquid extraction, fractional distillation

Chromatography: Flash Chromatography, Column Chromatography, TLC, Analytical and preparative HPLC, GC, GC-MS, LC-MS.

Spectroscopy/Spectrometry/Other: UV, IR, NMR (1D and 2D) spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and X-ray crystallography.

Analytical Techniques in Natural Products - 7124PHASCI

Analytical Techniques in Natural Products

Independently acquire advanced chemical knowledge and apply specialised methods necessary for the extraction, purification and identification of natural products.

Independently acquire advanced chemical knowledge and apply specialised methods necessary for the qualitative and quantitative instrumental analysis of natural products.

Safely solve -alone or as part of a team- multidisciplinary challenges in the field of analysis of natural products even in the absence of complete information.

Demonstrate the necessary skills to plan, perform, report and interpret the results of laboratory experiments and analyses applied to natural products.

Ethically source, systematically locate, critically evaluate, objectively assess, and make appropriate use of information from scientific literature and relevant electronic resources in the field of analysis of natural products.