Platform "Chemical Analysis"

The analysis of chemical compounds plays an important part in pharmaceutical research and teaching. One of the fundamental duties of pharmacists is to supply the population with high-quality drugs. In addition to qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis plays an important role in this respect. Pharmacists are trained to become experts in analytics.

The Department of Pharmaceutical & Medicinal Chemistry (Head: Prof. Dr. Christa E. Müller)  has been operating the platform Chemical Analysis for more than 20 years, which offers an analytical service for the entire Pharmaceutical Institute and beyond, e.g. for the Pharma Center Bonn. The Chemical Analysis Platform operates two high-field NMR spectrometers, three mass spectrometers and several capillary electrophoresis devices. It cooperates closely with the analytical departments of the neighboring Chemical Institutes. The two areas have different, complementary focuses, e.g. in mass spectrometry: While chemistry focuses on qualitative MS analysis and MS imaging, the Pharmaceutical Institute has many years of expertise in the field of quantitative analysis and is currently expanding this focus, which is in great demand.