A-level Chemistry/OCR (Salters)/Medicines by Design

Medicines by Design is the thirteenth unit in the Salters Advanced Chemistry course.

Chemical Storylines sections

  • MD1 Alcohol in the body
  • MD2 The drug action of ethanol
  • MD3 Medicines that send messages to nerves
  • MD4 Enzyme inhibitors as medicines
  • MD5 Targeting bacteria
  • MD6 Summary

Chemical Ideas sections

  • 1.1 Amount of substance
  • 13.7 Aldehydes and ketones
  • 7.6 Chromatography (revision)
  • 14.1 Planning a synthesis
  • 14.2 Summary of organic reactions
  • 6.4 Infrared spectroscopy (revision)
  • 13.9 Amino acids (revision)
  • 6.5 Mass spectrometry (revision)
  • 6.6 Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (revision)
  • 6.8 Ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy (revision)

Activities

  • MD1.1 Aldehydes and ketones
  • MD1.2 BAC determination using gas-liquid chromatography
  • MD3.1 Making a toolkit of organic reactions
  • MD3.2 Classifying reactions
  • MD3.3 Using the toolkit to synthesise medicines
  • MD3.4 Manufacturing salbutamol (Optional extension)
  • MD5.1 Making and testing a penicillin
  • MD5.2 A closer look at the structure of penicillins (Optional extension)
  • MD6 Check your notes on Medicines by Design
This article is issued from Wikibooks. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.