Academic Calendar 2015/2016 - Chemistry in Life Sciences

BIOL 4347  Chemistry in Life Sciences

Prerequisites:

CHEM 2307

Antirequisites:

CHEM 4347

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

This course will be based on seminars and directed readings in areas of chemistry that are relevant to the Life Sciences. Topics such as drug discovery processes, drug design, use of pro-drugs, natural product chemistry, bioactive natural products, biotransformations in organic chemistry, metabolism, combinatorial chemistry/parallel synthesis, high-throughput screening/deconvolution, green chemistry, and click chemistry will be discussed. This course is also offered as CHEM 4347.