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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
This course explored chemistry-based topics relating to our everyday lives, with a focus on organic chemistry. Students studied perfumes, antibiotics, brewing and sport, and undertook experiments including extracting a plant fragrance and testing the activity of spices against microbes.
4 weeks, 5 hours per week
Professor Andrew Parsons
The Department of Chemistry
University of York
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify a range of natural and synthetic attractants
- Discuss current theories that help to explain how chemical structure is related to smell
- Describe the mode of action of antibiotics and understand bacterial resistance
- Describe promising new areas of research to design smarter drugs
- Engage with the process of brewing, and identify key flavouring compounds
- Discuss the role of modern analytical methods
Syllabus
- Chemical attraction - perfumes and pheromones
- The race for new antibiotics
- Understanding brewing
- Chemistry in sport - innovations that are changing the game
Issued on 29th December 2021
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