Under the supervision of the Dean of the College of Pharmacy, Associate Professor Dr. Sarmed H. Kathum Alkhateeb, the Continuing Education Unit in the University of Baghdad/College of Pharmacy, held an in-person scientific workshop about the chemistry of medicinal plants and pollution, delivered by Assistant Lecturer Yasir Falih Muhsin, a faculty member at Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department.The workshop aimed to highlight a chemical study of two types of medicinal plants and their impact on the environment because of the importance of this topic in reducing the spread of coronavirus and the importance of green chemistry in the synthesis of some common drugs and reducing the sources of pollution produced during manufacturing.The workshop explored the challenges and problems in pollution sources, coronavirus spreading, and factors affecting them, studied two types of medicinal plants that are not found in Iraq, and contained two types of saponin similar to the installation of the cell membrane to which the virus binds rather than the cell, thereby reducing the risk of coronavirus infection. On the other hand, the workshop dealt with green chemistry and its principles and presented some examples of common drugs of green synthesis and drug synthesis by tradition and by using green chemistry.
