Detailed interpretations of UV, IR, NMR, and mass spectra are included. The laboratory is designed to improve practical skills and involves the preparation of derivatives where the students work out the details of chemical reactions from generic procedures. Thus, both the lecture and laboratory provide useful experience for any student who desires to work in a laboratory setting where organic compounds are employed. Three hours lecture and one three hour laboratory per week. This course is a rigorous treatment of modern molecular biochemistry.
Computer software is used to supplement lectures and for processing laboratory data.
The laboratories are primarily concerned with enzyme properties and kinetics. Newer experiments use stopped-flow kinetics and diode array spectrophotometry to determine intermediates in enzyme catalyzed reactions and postulate a mechanism. CHEM 426 . Advanced Inorganic Chemistry . CHEM 426 is the second course in our inorganic sequence and has, as prerequisites, Chem.