Nitrogen Containing Organic Compounds and Some Aspects of Medicinal Chemistry

Paper Code: 
CHY- 602
Credits: 
2
Contact Hours: 
30.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

To introduce the students to the importance of nitrogen in organic compounds and chemotherapeutic agents.
 

7.00
Unit I: 
Heterocyclic Compounds

Nomenclature of five and six membered heterocycles; molecular orbital picture and aromatic character of pyrrole , pyridine, furan and thiophene; methods of synthesis, chemical reactions with respect to electrophilic substitution reactions, nucleophilic substitution reactions in pyridine and pyrrole (mechanism and orientation), comparision ofbasicity of pyridine peperidineand pyrrole.

5.00
Unit II: 
Condensed Five and Six Membered Heterocycles

Preparation and reactions of indole, quinoline and isoquinoline with special reference to Fischer indole synthesis, Skraup synthesis and Bischler – Napieralski synthesis.
 

5.00
Unit III: 
Nitroarenes

Pre requisite: Aliphatic nitro compounds.
Preparation, reactions – electrophilic and nucleophilic substitution, effect of the substituents on the acidity of phenols, effect of nitro group on nucleophilic substitution of aryl halides, reduction.
 

6.00
Unit IV: 
Amines

Nomenclature,preparation and reactions of aliphatic and aromatic primary amines.
Classification and distinction between primary, secondary and tertiary amines; relative basic strength of aliphatic and aromatic amines; diazotization- mechanism, stability of diazonium salts,
Self Study:diazo coupling

7.00
Unit V: 
Drugs and Antibiotics

Introduction, lock and key theory
Synthesis and medicinal applications of -Sulpha drugs: sulphadiazine (sulpha pyrimidine), sulpha guanidine, sulphamethazine, sulpha pyridine.
Analgesics: aspirin, phenacetin, paracetamol.
Antimalarials: chloroquine, pamaquine.
Antibiotics:  penicillin, streptomycin and chloramphenicol.

References: 
  1. Organic Chemistry; Fourth Edition; G. Marc Loudon; OxfordUniversity Press, New York, 2002.
  2.  Organic Chemistry; Sixth Edition; Robert Thornton Morrison & Robert Neilson Boyd; Prentice-Hall of India Pvt. Ltd , New Delhi, 2004.
  3. Organic Chemistry Vol. I & II; Fifth Edition; I.L. Finar; Longman Scientific and Technical, Singapore, 1975.

 

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