This course provides how natural products are normally classified according to their biosynthetic origins and chemical properties. A systematic study of natural products of medicinal and pharmaceutical importance to their identification, isolation, separation techniques are discussed. This course consists of lectures and lab experiments.

CILO-1: Identify the classes of natural products by drawing and interpret general structural characteristic. CILO-2: Describe the common physical and chemical properties, and basic medicinal application. CILO-3: Describe extraction and purification methods for each category of natural products. CILO-4: Identify various classes of natural compounds using ultraviolet (UV), infrared (IR), mass spectrometry (MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. CILO-5: Describe the chemistry and bioactivity related to alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenoids, coumarins, anthroquinones and saponins.