CHEM 330 Biochemistry I

Introduction(What is this biochemistry stuff

anyway?)

Syllabus

Mark Brandt, Ph.D.– Email: brandt@rose-hulman.edu– Website: www.rose-hulman.edu/~brandt– Moench FL-109– x8406

– www.rose-hulman.edu/~brandt/Chem330/

Syllabus

• Non-office hours2nd hour M, T, R, F (CHEM 330)6th hour Monday (CHEM 470)7-10th hour Monday (CHEM 251L)4th hour Wednesday (Seminar, G-313)1-4th hour Wednesday (CHEM 251L)

Committee Meetings (TBA)

Syllabus

• Software– DyKnow

– SwissPDBViewer

– VMD (optional)

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Amino acids

History

Friedrich Wöhler (1828)

History

Concepts from Organic and General Chemistry

pH and acid/base reactionsThermodynamicsKinetics

Electron movementResonanceReaction mechanisms

Aldol Condensation