Norwegian

Course description

• Course content
• Learning outcome
• Admission
• Prerequisites

• Overlapping courses
• Teaching
• Examination
• Evaluation

Course content

Organic chemistry applied to pharmaceutical subject matter. The following topics are emphasised: Stereochemistry, substitution- and elimination reactions, oxidation and reduction reactions, aromatic compounds and their reactions, organometallic reactions and nucleophilic additions. An introduction to spectroscopy will also be given.

Learning outcome

The course will provide the students with an understanding of the most important concepts and reaction mechanisms within organic chemistry, and how these concepts are applied in medicinal chemistry, pharmacognosy, biology and pharmaceutics.

Admission

The course is only available to students who have been admitted to the School of Pharmacy at the University of Oslo.

Prerequisites

Formal prerequisite knowledge

Current School of Pharmacy enrolment requirements, and approved manditory activities from FRM1000

Health, Safety and Environment (HSE)
There are compulsory HSE courses at the beginning of the first semester. For students commencing their program from the autumn semester 2015 the following courses are mandatory:

• HMS0501 - Safety and Physical Environment
• HMS0502 - Positive Learning Environment
• HMS0507 - Fire Safety

In addition to this you will have to complete HMS0503 - Laboratory Safety and HMS0506 Patient clinic Safety for participation in Laboratory and clinic-courses in the program.

You will need to provide documentation that you have passed HMS0501, HMS0502, HMS0503 HMS0506 and HMS0507 when you attend the first mandatory lab.

For students who commenced the program from the Autumn semester 2012 up til and including the spring semester 2015 the following courses are mandatory:

• MNHMS0015 - Introduction to Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) (discontinued) or HMS0501 - Safety and Physical Environment and HMS0502 - Positive Learning Environment and HMS0507 - Fire Safety.
• MNHMS0010LS - Introduction to Laboratory Safety (discontinued) or MNHMS0020LS - In-Depth Laboratory Safety (discontinued) or HMS0503 - Laboratory Safety
• MNHMS0015FS - Introduction to Field Safety (discontinued)  or HMS0504 Field Safety.
  
  For more information on the HSE courses and transitional arrangements:
  http://www.mn.uio.no/english/studies/courses/hse-courses.html