Description
The module will teach students about key aspects of pharmaceutical analysis and quality control, focusing on the major techniques which will be crucial for their future careers/studies. They will learn about high-performance liquid chromatography, UV spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry, thermal analysis, microscopy (light, electron, atomic force), and hyphenated techniques. The focus of the module will be on data acquisition and interpretation, with the aim of inculcating the students taking the module with the skills needed to use these techniques to solve real pharmaceutical problems.
List of lectures:
- Introduction to physical form and X-ray diffraction
- Introduction to separation science
- High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method development and validation
- Gas chromatography
- Practical session: HPLC
- Workshop: HPLC data analysis
- Microscopy
- Thermal methods
- Solid state Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
- Vibration spectroscopy
- Dynamic vapour sorption (DVS) and hyphenated techniques
- Light scattering for particle size analysis
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
Ìý