Chemistry with Biological and Medicinal Chemistry BSc

at University of Sheffield

Modules

Year 1:

In your first year, you'll spend a day a week in the lab, learning essential skills and techniques. You will study topics including the structure of atoms and molecules, how and why chemical reactions happen, and how to identify and analyse different compounds. You'll also look at biological processes that are underpinned by chemistry, and the critical role that chemistry plays in ensuring a sustainable future.
 

Core modules:

• Fundamentals of Chemistry
• Chemistry in a Sustainable Future

Year 2:
 

In your second year, you'll spend two days a week in the lab, as you learn to run more complex experiments. You'll move on to study more advanced topics in organic chemistry (reactions of functional groups, synthesis, biopolymers), inorganic chemistry (main group compounds, transition metal coordination complexes, inorganic solids) and physical chemistry (quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, polymers and colloids). 
 

Core modules:

• Inorganic Chemistry: Structure, Bonding & Reactivity
• Physical Chemistry and Polymer Science
• Synthetic, Mechanistic and Biological Aspects of Organic Chemistry
• Environmental, Analytical & Sustainable Chemistry
• Enterprise and Employability

Year 3:
 

In your third year, you'll work on a research project. You'll gather and evaluate data, run your own experiments and present your findings. You'll have a wide range of optional modules to choose from too, with topics ranging from energy storage to chemistry in space.
 

Core modules:

• Chemistry Employability Skills and Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Projects
• Mechanisms, Pericyclic Reactions and Synthesis
• Organometallic, Solid State and Coordination Chemistry
• Statistical Thermodynamics, Spectroscopy, Surfaces, Colloids
• Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Synthesis