Chemistry – Medicinal chemistry – Yarra Ranges Tech School

Maximum Number of Students

Duration

1 Day 9:30 – 2:30

Curriculum Areas

VCE Chemistry

Description

Learning Outcomes

Understand the chemical structures and roles of ingredients in everyday cosmetics
Study the chemical structure of parabens and other molecules
Prepare standards using micropipettes
Test standards and samples using a High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) instrument and interpret chromatograms
Construct calibration curves using data from HPLC analysis
Determine the concentration of parabens in cosmetic samples

Career Paths

Analytical chemist
Pharmaceutical chemist
Laboratory technician
Formulation chemist

Tertiary Options

Bachelor of Science (Various universities)
Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Monash / Melb Uni)
Bachelor of Biotechnology (Latrobe / RMIT)
Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (Monash / RMIT)

Before your visit

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After your visit

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