Pharmaceutical Chemistry

The department of pharmaceutical chemistry is one of the important branch in the pharmacy. It is equipped with state of the art facilities to undertake academics in Bachelor of Pharmacy course. Pharmaceutical Chemistry Labs are well equipped with latest instruments to impart practical training to the students. The department has a Pharmaceutical Chemistry Lab I (Inorganic / Organic Chemistry Lab), Pharmaceutical Chemistry Lab II (Pharmaceutical Analysis Lab), Pharmaceutical Chemistry laboratory III and central instrumental laboratory. These well furnished laboratories provide facilities for practical training in pharmaceutical medicinal chemistry, synthesis and structural elucidation of medicinally important compounds, practical training is also offered in organic chemistry with well designed experiments. The experiments aimed separation and identification of inorganic and organic mixture are also carried out in this lab. The pharmaceutical chemistry lab is well ventilated and exhausted.

Pharmaceutical chemistry is a discipline at the intersection of chemistry and pharmacology involved in with design, synthesis and developing drug molecules. Medicinal chemistry involves the identification, synthesis and development of new chemical entities suitable for therapeutic use. It also includes the study of existing drugs, their biological properties, and their quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR). Pharmaceutical chemistry is focused on quality aspects of medicines and aims to assure fitness and efficacy for medicinal products. The department offers a wide area of research in the area of new drug discovery, process and developmental methods, including study of mechanism of drugs and also analytical method development for new drugs. Computer-aided drug design and new biotechnological approaches are opening new avenues in the field of medicinal chemistry.