Chemistry of Natural Products

Course Description

Content:
Study of various methods of extraction and purification of compounds. Classification of natural products.
Terpenes: General reactions for structure determination of terpenes. Structure determination of acyclic mono terpenoids, Monocyclic monoterpenes, Bicyclic monoterpenes.
Alkaloids: General structure.
determination reactions of alkaloids, Hoffman an Emed, Exhaustive methylation. Methyl phenyl amine group. Pyridine pyrimidine group, Piperidine-pyrolidine group, Quinoline group. Steroids: General structure determination reactions of steroids, Plank rule. Structural determination of Cholesterol. Sex hormones, Bile acids, Adrenal cortex hormones. Natural phenolic compounds and classifications.

Course Objectives & Outcomes
Objectives:

• Classes of natural products.
• Structuredetermination of organic compounds and synthesis of each natural product to confirm the structure determination.
• Also it gives a direct scope on various types of extraction, distillation ؤand purification techniques.

Outcomes:

At the end of this course, the student will be able to:

• describe the basic of natural organic compounds.
• Identify the Structure of natural organic reactions.
• Different the specified types of reactions and perform of the natural organic compounds.
• To distinguish the Characterization of natural organic compounds. To Suggest reaction mechanism of its application in the preparation.
• To relate the applications of natural organic compounds in the field of preparation of some medical drugs.

References
1. Chemistry of Natural Products,
Sujata V. Bhat, Bhimsen A. Nagasampagi, Meenakshi Sivakumar,
Springer Science & Business Media, 2013
ISBN 9783540406693, 3540406697

2.Organic Chemistry, J. Finar VOL 2.

Course ID: CHEM 465