CHEM3012

Topics in Biological and Organic Chemistry will provide students with a chemical background for understanding biological systems. The possible topics covered will include:

  • Structural biology
  • basic treatment of methods used to obtain structures.
  • data bases for structural data and methods used to access them.
  • description of biological structures.
  • Bio-inorganic chemistry
  • coordination chemistry
  • metal binding proteins
  • structure function studies involving metal binding proteins
  • Bio-organic chemistry
  • synthesis of important molecules
  • natural products chemistry
  • enzyme mechanisms

Unit Value: 3 Units

Coordinator: Professor Chris Easton