MChem Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry / Course details

This course unit detail provides the framework for delivery in 21/22 and may be subject to change due to any additional Covid-19 impact.  

The unit provides training for employability in industry and research.

Semester 1 provides a common training ground of experiments across the broad spectrum of chemistry topics and acts as a stepping stone from first and second year laboratories. Semester 1 experiments are generally split into two parts; the first part will enable a practice of fundamental skills with the second part being open-ended and an opportunity to develop planning, creativity and critical analysis.

Semester 2 will provide time for group research projects, focussing on a key area of chemistry as chosen by the research group. Research groups will work with a member of academic staff to develop project aims and deliver against these aims.

The CHEM30620 course will develop skills in employability including communication skills, reporting to a professional standard, research skills, creativity, planning work with milestones, budgeting, risk assessment, allocating work amongst team members and working as a team to achieve shared objectives.

After completing this unit you will be an independently functioning researcher: able to make critical judgements regarding experimental techniques, to select appropriate techniques for a given process based on analysis of the system or compound, to report your findings to a professional standard, evidencing integrity and consistency, to work as part of a team to develop aims, plan activities and deliver against shared objectives.

The CHEM30620 course will develop skills in employability including communication skills, reporting to a professional standard, research skills, creativity, planning work with milestones, budgeting, risk assessment, allocating work amongst team members and working as a team to achieve shared objectives.

Feedback is provided in the following ways:

Weekly, formative feedback discussions will take place during laboratory activities and supervisor meetings.

Monthly written feedback commentaries will be provided on written submitted work.

Online formative feedback and marks will be provided for the individual project execution mark at least twice during semester 2.

Individual experiments and research projects will prescribe specific reading from the relevant literature which will include journal articles, textbooks and patents.

In addition, general information can be found in texts such as:

Vogel, A.I., Tatchell, A.R., Furnis, B.S., Hannaford, A.J. and Smith, P.W.G., 1989. Vogel’s textbook of practical organic chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, pp.1023-1024.

Pass, G., 2013. Practical inorganic chemistry: preparations, reactions and instrumental methods. Springer Science & Business Media.

Lewars, E., 2003. Computational chemistry. Introduction to the theory and applications of molecular and quantum mechanics, p.318.

Harris D.C., 2016. Quantitative Chemical Analysis, 9^th Ed., W.H. Freeman, pp. 667-712

Miller J.H., Miller J.C., Miller R.D., 2018. Statistics and Chemometrics for Analytical Chemistry, 7^th Ed., Pearson Education