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Chemistry is a complex science, due it theories explain the phenomena at the microscopic level, making the concepts of it difficult to understand, which restrict students perception. This work demonstrates the importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to the organic chemistry teaching with a thematic approach on drugs using molecular modeling as a didactical tool in the teaching and learning process.

The research was conducted in Amapá State University (UEAP), located in the city of Macapá-AP, Brazil.

The population sample consisted of randomly academics degree course in the second chemical semester and the data were collected through questionnaires.

The research presents quantitative characteristics and the sample group consisted of 24 undergraduate students from UEAP, equally divided into two groups: Control Group (CG) and Intervention Group (IG). In the first part the questionnaires were applied to students of both groups to check the perceptions, conceptions about drugs and molecular modeling. In a second part was held a class lecture to the academic groups, which were showed concepts about drugs, classification, law, chemistry drug-related, and study for molecular modeling, followed by questionnaires. In the third part, an introductory course in molecular modeling to 12 students of the intervention group (IG), using the ChemSketch software, being treated together, the theme drugs and application of molecular modeling by applying the questionnaire to the intervention group after the course. The answers from both groups were …