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Course, academic year 2021/2022
  
   
Drug design - AP110025
Title: Drug design
Form of teaching: nothing
Guaranteed by: Department of Organic Chemistry (110)
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Technology
Actual: from 2021 to 2021
Duration in semesters: 1
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:0
E-Credits: summer s.:0
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:3/0, other [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Repeated enrollment: - / - / - / 9
Note: course is intended for doctoral students only
can be fulfilled in the future
Guarantor: Brancale Andrea prof. Ph.D.
Cibulka Radek prof. Ing. Ph.D.
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation
Synthetic strategies based on organocatalyzed processes, such as stereoselective aldol and Mannich reaction, Michael and Diels-Alder addition, Friedel-Crafts-like functionalization, allylation, transfer hydrogenation, and hydrosilylation, etc.
Last update: Fialová Jana (05.05.2022)
Course completion requirements -

It is compulsory to pass an oral examination.

Last update: Brancale Andrea (07.08.2026)
Literature -

R: P. I. Dalko (Ed.): Enantioselective Organocatalysis - Reactions and Experimental Procedures; Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2007.

A: P. I. Dalko (Ed.): Comprehensive Enantioselective Organocatalysis - Catalysts, Reactions, and Applications, Vol. 1-3; Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2013.

A: R. Rios-Torres (Ed.): Stereoselective Organocatalysis; Wiley, Hoboken, USA, 2013

Last update: Fialová Jana (05.05.2022)
Syllabus

1. Introduction.

2. Catalysis via Enamines; Aldol reactions, Mannich reactions,α-Heteroatom Functionalization, Michael Additions.

3. Catalysis via Iminium Ions; Cycloadditions, Michael additions, Epoxidations.

4. Brønsted Acids as Catalysts; Michael addition, Hydrocyanation, Mannich reaction, Aza-Henry reaction, Aza-Friedel-Crafts reaction, Pictet-Spengler Reaction, Transfer Hydrogenation, Morita-Baylis-Hillman Reaction, Diels-Alder Reaction.

5. Lewis Bases as Catalysts; Allylation of Aldehydes, Aldol-Type Reactions, Hydrocyanation, Hydrosilylation, Reduction of Imines, Reduction of Ketones.

6. Epoxidation.

Last update: Fialová Jana (05.05.2022)
Learning resources -

Learning resources will be provided through e-learning

Last update: Brancale Andrea (07.08.2026)
Learning outcomes -

Students will be able to:

understand approaches to suggest suitable target

understand principles of basic computational approaches for drug design

understand approaches to develop leading structure

know modern approaches for drug discovery.

Last update: Brancale Andrea (07.08.2026)
 
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