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Course code: NWSS10060o12Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Chemistry of Plant-Origin Natural Compounds
Major: Commodity Science
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 6
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Antoni Szumny
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: Students are experienced in chemical structures, properties and uses of some important plant-origin compounds. Students could perform isolation process of some compounds from plant material. Students are shown connectivity between chemical structure and pharmacological properties. They could recognize and evaluate of chemical composition and quality of important species. Students could perform gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry, steam distillation, column chromatography (CC), thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and HPLC. Students could analyze chromatograms GC-MS and some typical NMR-spectra. Students could analyze natural and synthetic volatile additives in food.
Competences: Student could understand processes obtaining and occurring of natural compounds from pharmacognostic plants and some species. Students are able to analyze natural and synthetic aromatic compounds in food.
Prerequisites: none
Course content: The history of pharmacognosy. Natural compounds: occurring in nature, general classification. Methods in natural products isolation. Application of natural products. Every-day using of natural products. Flavours and fragrances compounds. Terpenes: diversity, structure and application. Alkaloids: diversity, structure and application in medicine. Antocyans and flavonoids: occurring in nature and properties Phenolic compound, chinones and coumarins: occurring in nature and biological properties. Modern, natural pesticides. Pheromones – diversity and application. Allelopathy in plant cultivation. Methyl esters as biofuel – synthesis and application. Chemial composition and properties of selected species and pharmacognostic herbs. Isolation of natural compounds and determination of their structures. Outlook of application of new natural compounds. Etnopharmacology.
Recommended literature: 1. „Farmakognozja” Stanisław Kohlmunzer, PZWL 2003; 2. „Naturalne związki organiczne” Aleksander Kołodziejczyk PWN 2006; 3. „Chemia organicznych związków naturalnych”, Krystyna Dzierzbicka, Dariusz Witt, wyd. Politechniki Gdańskiej 2000; 4. Materiały wykładowe, dostarczone przez prowadzącego w formie prezentacji Power Point; 5. “Medicinal Natural Products – biosynthetic approach”, Paul M. Dewick, John Wiley and Sons, LTD 3-rd Ed. 2009; 6. “Bioactive compounds from plants”, John Wiley and Sons, LTD 1990.
Assessment methods: Written exam.
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