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Option D

Option D: Medicinal chemistry is one of my favourite options. As 'Drugs and medicines' it used to be part of the old Standard level Applied Chemistry course and was dropped when that course was merged into what was then the 'new' Chemistry course during the big revision of 1996. I updated it and taught 'Medicines and Drugs' as a school based option at both SL and HL for five years before it was brought back in again...

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