About Pharmaceutical Chemistry

         The department of Pharmaceutical chemistry is mainly concerned with taking Theory/ Tutorial and Practical’s in the subjects of Pharmaceutical Inorganic chemistry, Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutical analysis for the undergraduate students of the B.Pharm. This department mainly undertakes experiments such as the identification of pharmaceutical organic or inorganic compounds by qualitative & quantitative analysis. Moreover, students do experiment like the synthesis of various intermediates and APIs. The department of Pharmaceutical chemistry offers excellent infrastructure with well-equipped laboratories and knowledge in the form of a vast collection of relevant textbooks, reference books and Journals. The department faculties have received minor research grant from the University of Mumbai and the faculties are actively involved in research and consultancy activities.

Salient Features of the Department

• Well-equipped laboratories with required facilities.
• Fume hood, microwave oven and other facilities.
• Sophisticated instrumentation lab.
• Facilities to synthesize, extract and analyze the drugs by classical and modern methods.

Core competencies

• Isolation of active constituents from natural origin.
• Synthesis and purification of intermediates and APIs.
• Column chromatographic separations.
• Identification and quantification of APIs and intermediates.
• Computational drug design.