An oral report of the work in progress will be made at the regular seminar and a written report of the results is to be submitted to the chemistry faculty upon completion. May be repeated once for credit. A study of some of the modern instrumental methods of analysis including electrochemistry, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, magnetic resonance spectrometry, mass spectrometry and gas chromatography. Lecture three hours, laboratory three hours. This course covers the properties of amino acids, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids and nucleic acids and presents a brief introduction to enzymology.
Major emphasis is on the chemistry of biological compounds.
An introduction to intermediary metabolism is also presented. Lecture three hours. Experimental investigations which supplement the study of the topics in biochemistry. CHE 4580 is corequisite or prerequisite to CHE 4581. Laboratory three hours.