Module Aims, Learning Outcomes and Indicative Contents

أهداف المادة الدراسية ونتائج التعلم والمحتويات الإرشادية 

 Module Aims

أهداف المادة الدراسية 

1. To develop third-stage students` information on the subject of natural products and their medical and industrial important

2. To understand and know the classes of active chemical compounds that are produced by living organisms

3. This course deals with the basic concepts of secondary metabolites and their classifications

4. This course   is important for teaching students the active   chemical structures and their use as pharmaceuticals

5. The course study the bio-synthesis  of natural products pathways

Module Learning Outcomes

مخرجات التعلم للمادة الدراسية 

1. Identify the nature of secondary metabolites

2. Identify the difference between primary and secondary metabolites

3. An important summary of how to identification  chemical active compounds by different techniques

4. Discuss the interaction and participation of natural active chemical compounds in pharmaceutical use.

5. Deion of terpenes, alkaloids, phenols, glycosides and antibiotics

6. Determination of classes of active compounds of natural products

7. Study of biosynthesis and metabolic pathways

8. Identifying the class  and characteristics of each type of natural products

9. Identify the chemical structures of all secondary metabolite compounds

Indicative Contents

المحتويات الإرشادية 

indicative content includes the following.

Part A - Introducing Natural Products

   metabolism, definitions of primary and secondary metabolism,

Why do we study natural products, classification of natural products compounds, ways to identify the structural com of natural products. [15 hours]

  Part A Classes of Natural Products: 1- (Terpenoids) 2- D (Steroids)

3- (Alkaloids)

4- (Flavonoids and Anthocyanins)

5- Glycosides 6. (Coumarins)

7- (Phenanthernoids)

9- Vitamins 10- (Xanthones)

  [15 hours]

Revision problem classes  [6 hrs]

Part B - Study of antibiotics. [10 hours]