Principles and Methods of Pharmaceutical Analysis with Laboratory

The course, which also includes laboratory practicals, allows the student, for the first time in the course of study, to approach the experimental chemistry, and particularly the practice of chemical analysis. Its main purpose is the learning of a correct, accurate and conscious "modus operandi" in the implementation of the elementary methods that this practice entails. To this end, the fundamental principles and methods of qualitative pharmaceutical analysis are illustrated in the lectures and implemented in the subsequent laboratory exercises, with special regard to the identification of inorganic substances of pharmaceutical interest. The student has the opportunity to perform recognition, characterization and compliance procedures with the standards required and prescribed for these substances by the Italian Pharmacopoeia and the European Pharmacopoeia.

By the end of the course the student will acquire the analytical principles and methods applied to the analysis of inorganic substances of pharmaceutical interest. The student will be able to choose the most suitable method for the analysis of these substances and to apply the basic techniques for their recognition. The student will therefore know how to characterize the chemical composition of an inorganic substance for pharmaceutical use and establish its compliance with the standards required by the Italian Pharmacopoeia and the European Pharmacopoeia. The course will also provide the student with the basic notions of the pharmacological and/or toxicological properties of inorganic substances of pharmaceutical interest.