Chemistry - Chemistry in Everyday Life

Name: Chemistry - Chemistry in Everyday Life
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Author: Studi Live

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Course Description

Chemistry is essentially the study of materials and the development of new materials for the betterment of humanity. A drug is a chemical agent, which affects human metabolism and provides cure from ailment. If taken in doses higher than recommended, these may have poisonous effect. Use of chemicals for therapeutic effect is called chemotherapy. Drugs usually interact with biological macromolecules such as carbohydrates, proteins, lipids and nucleic acids. These are called target molecules. Drugs are designed to interact with specific targets so that these have the least chance of affecting other targets. This minimises the side effects and localises the action of the drug. Drug chemistry centres around arresting microbes/destroying microbes, preventing the body from various infectious diseases, releasing mental stress, etc. Thus, drugs like analgesics, antibiotics, antiseptics, disinfectants, antacids and tranquilizers are used for specific purpose. To check the population explosion, antifertility drugs have also become prominent in our life.

Food additives such as preservatives, sweetening agents, flavours, antioxidants, edible colours and nutritional supplements are added to the food to make it attractive, palatable and add nutritive value. Preservatives are added to the food to prevent spoilage due to microbial growth. Artificial sweeteners are used by those who need to check the calorie intake or are diabetic and want to avoid taking sucrose.

These days, detergents are much in vogue and get preference over soaps because they work even in hard water. Synthetic detergents are classified into three main categories, namely: anionic, cationic and non-ionic, and each category has its specific uses. Detergents with straight chain of hydrocarbons are preferred over branched chain as the latter are non-biodegradable and consequently cause environmental pollution.

Goals

What will you learn in this course:

Visualise the importance of Chemistry in daily life
Explain the term ‘chemotherapy’
Describe the basis of classification of drugs
Explain drug-target interaction of enzymes and receptors
Explain how various types of drugs function in the body
Know about artificial sweetening agents and food preservatives
Discuss the chemistry of cleansing agents

Prerequisites

What are the prerequisites for this course?

Basic understanding of chemistry and math's

Curriculum

Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course

Chemistry in Everyday Life
12 Lectures

Introduction 07:09 07:09
Detergents 09:10 09:10
Soaps 06:34 06:34
Antifertility Drugs 05:30 05:30
Antiseptics and Disinfectants 10:18 10:18
Chemicals in Food Part - 1 06:00 06:00
Chemicals in Food Part - 2 10:23 10:23
Antibiotics 07:36 07:36
Antimicrobials 08:03 08:03
Antacids and Antihistamines 05:18 05:18
Analgesics 08:43 08:43
Tranquilizers 06:00 06:00

Instructor Details

Studi Live

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