September 10 - 14, 2006, ACS Fall 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA

Using Pharmaceuticals to Teach Chemistry: Educational Innovations for Majors and Non-Majors

Scott MacDonald, Karim Kassam, Sanji Bhal, Robin Martin

Abstract

One of the common complaints we hear from educators attempting to teach physical chemistry is that it takes a long time for students, both undergraduate and graduate, to get a feeling for a compound's physicochemical parameters. The next gap in understanding then comes with students attempting to apply this knowledge in a "common sense" manner for problem solving, and then finally for rational drug design. This talk will outline some of the ways educators have applied physicochemical property prediction software to help students get a sense of the physicochemical properties for a compound, and how to apply multiple physicochemical parameters to problem solving.

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