Organic Synthesis Laboratory Work- course

Annual Organic Synthesis Laboratory Work -course (that I'm directing and teaching) has started again in Pharmaceutical Chemistry discipline. In this class, the students will prepare novel drug molecules by themselves. And not any random molecules, these compounds will be later used in the research at the School of Pharmacy! One of the main learning outcomes of this course is to apply the principles of “green chemistry”, which means that the compounds will be prepared according to sustainable development and the students learn e.g., to use microwave-assisted synthesis (first figure) to speed up the reaction and improve the yields (not forgetting that this method saves energy and water consumption, to name few).