Course code:
411A2		 Course name:
Chemistry of Natural Products

Academic year:

2024/2025.

Attendance requirements:

202A2

ECTS:

7

Study level:

basic academic studies, integrated basic and graduate academic studies

Study programs:

Chemistry: 3. year, winter semester, compulsory course

Environmental Chemistry: 3. year, winter semester, compulsory course

Chemical Education: 3. year, winter semester, compulsory course

Teacher:

Radivoje M. Prodanović, Ph.D.
full professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Assistants:

Milica M. Crnoglavac Popović
junior research assistant, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Marija D. Stanišić
research assistant, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Hours of instruction:

Weekly: three hours of lectures + three hours of labwork (3+0+3)

Goals:

The goal of this course is to help students master the basic principles of isolation, purification, identification, characterization and determination of the structure of the most important classes of natural products. The course also examines the roles these molecules have in the organisms which produce them with the focus on secondary metabolites, their biosynthesis, physiological activity and application.

Outcome:

Students have mastered the basic principles of isolation, purification, identification, characterization and determination of the structure of the most important classes of natural products.

Teaching methods:

Lectures, exercises, term papers.

Extracurricular activities:

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Coursebooks:

Main coursebooks:

  • Slobodan Petrović, Dušan Mijin: Hemija prirodnih organskih jedinjenja, Univerzitet u Beogradu-Tehnološko-metalurški fakultet, Beograd, 2022.
  • Lehninger: Principles of Biochemistry, W. H. Freeman and Co, 2005.

Supplementary coursebooks:

  • K. B. G. Torssell: Natural Products Chemistry, Apotekarsocieteten, Stockholm, 1995.
  • R. M. Jankov, N. Polović, T. Ćirković Veličković: Praktikum - Hemija prirodnih proizvoda, Hemijski fakultet, Beograd, 2006. ISBN: 86-7220-028-4

Additional material:

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  Course activities and grading method

Lectures:

0 points (3 hours a week)

Labwork:

0 points (3 hours a week)

Semester papers:

10 points

Colloquia:

20 points

Written exam:

20 points

Oral exam:

50 points