Industrial pharmacy REPLICA LATINA

General expected learning outcomes This course completes the basic knowledge of the general chemistry acquired during the first year highlighting the interconnections and introduces students to some fundamental analytical disciplines/procedures that will be developed in detail in the following years according to the specific addresses of the degree course. Specific expected learning outcomes 1. Knowledge and understanding The student becomes aware of the interconnections between the different chemical and physical properties of the molecules and of the conditions in which these properties occur, or are inhibited, from the point of view of the regulation / control mechanisms of these properties. Particular attention is paid to the fundamental topics of chemistry (salts, acids and bases, solubility, redox processes, complexes), which having been the subject of the teaching of General Chemistry in the first year of the CdL in CTF, they are now shown in the optics of their application in laboratory activities. The course includes the theoretical and applicative treatment of coordination compounds and the basics of nuclear chemistry, with particular reference to the production of artificial radioisotopes used in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine (radiopharmaceuticals). Other knowledge acquired concern the statistical foundations of Analytical Chemistry for the treatment of measures and errors, and the criteria for the graphic representation of chemical-physical processes and phenomena, useful in the laboratory activities. Finally, students receive basic training for the principles of chromatography and mass spectrometric methodologies. 2. Applying knowledge and understanding At the end of the course the student will develop towards the fundamental aspects of chemical reactions and analytical chemistry, enough sensitivity to allow him to consciously deal with the subsequent courses of preparatory laboratory, quantitative analysis and separation of substances. 3. Making judgements During the lessons, the critical and judgmental skills of the students are stimulated by their active participation, both through questions by the teacher, and through the collective solution of exercises representing real cases of problems that may occur in laboratory practice. 4. Communication skills This ability emerges during the lessons, when the collective participation of the students is needed and finds the upper level during the examination, in which the student explains the logical motivations of the answers, also through the use of visual tools such as functional charts and histograms. 5. Learning skills The student is induced to study autonomously not only by reading the recommended texts, but also by researching information through computer tools, especially for those topics treated only at an introductory level during the course, but that being historically consolidated they are described more in depth on specialized websites accessible through search engines.