Spring 2027

Medicinal Chemistry II

MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY II covers the chemistry of medicinal products including antihyperlipidemics, glucocorticoids, estrogens, progestins, NSAIDs, antitumor agents, and enzyme inhibitors.

offering recorded2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Jiaoyang JiangWeiping Tang

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.62 GPA, 76.8% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.54 GPA, 73.4% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.51 GPA, 71.5% A/AB (n=123 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain basic chemical principles as they apply to drug SAR

  • Identify drug classes and origin based in part on drug structures

  • Recognize the mechanism of drugs that act via enzyme inhibition

  • Explain the difficulty of drug design in light of side effects and complexity of possible drug targets

  • Apply the knowledge of structural modifications to enhance drug delivery via increased solubility, metabolic stability and bioavailability

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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PHM SCI 531

PHMSCI 532

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.62 GPA, 76.8% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.54 GPA, 73.4% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.51 GPA, 71.5% A/AB (n=123 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.62 GPA, 76.8% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.54 GPA, 73.4% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.51 GPA, 71.5% A/AB (n=123 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JIAOYANG JIANG is recorded teaching in Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

WEIPING TANG is recorded teaching in Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 1400

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.62 GPA, 76.8% A/AB (n=95 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.54 GPA, 73.4% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.51 GPA, 71.5% A/AB (n=123 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Antihyperlipidemics, glucocorticoids, estrogens, progestins, NSAIDs, antitumor agents, and enzyme inhibitors
  • Drug SAR and basic chemical principles
  • Drug design challenges regarding side effects and target complexity

Skills

  • Explain basic chemical principles as they apply to drug SAR
  • Identify drug classes and origin based in part on drug structures
  • Apply knowledge of structural modifications to enhance drug delivery

Grades

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Spring 2027 · Projected

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.07 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Selected offering source records
PHMSCI 532 · Spring 2027

Medicinal Chemistry II

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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