This course aims to provide the necessary theoretical knowledge for the training of qualified students, with particular attention to the quantitative determination of substances of pharmaceutical interest. The aim of the course is also the creation of a specific sensibility to the professional work of chemical and pharmaceutical laboratory.
The module of Analytical chemistry will cover topics relating to the collection, management and analysis of experimental data in analytical chemistry with particular emphasis on error analysis, analysis of samples, choice of method of analysis and accuracy achievable, sampling and sample preparation for analysis, sources of error and interference deletion. A part of the course will cover the study of equilibria in solution by treating topics related to the pH of solutions of acids and bases, salts, buffer solutions as well as the solubility, complexation and multiple equilibria in solution. During the course, instrumental techniques commonly used in analytical and pharmaceutical chemistry (such as chromatographic and spectrophotometric techniques) will be taken into consideration.
The module of "Quantitative analysis of the drugs I", divided into lectures and individual laboratory practices, aims to provide students with specific chemical experimental practice for the professional work of analytical-pharmaceutical chemistry laboratory. For this purpose, the main principles of analytical techniques for the determination of pharmaceutical and toxicological substances will be investigated. In particular, the main volumetric methods with emphasis on the operating conditions, limitations and practical execution of such methods will be investigated. In this way the student will have the opportunity of extending the theoretical concepts provided by the module "Analytical Chemistry".