Academic Calendar 2023/2024 - Chemistry in Life Sciences

CHEM 4347  Chemistry in Life Sciences

Prerequisites:

CHEM 2306 and CHEM 2317 or with permission of the instructor

Antirequisites:

BIOL 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 BIOL 4347.