Bioinorganic Chemistry in University of Waterloo
CHEM 413 :: Special Topics in Inorganic Chemistry / Bioinorganic ChemistryAn introduction to the inorganic chemistry of life, with emphasis on the manifold roles of transition metals in biology. Attention will be given to the significance of fundamental and characteristic inorganic properties within a biological context. General aspects of, and interactions between, inorganic and biological chemistry will be surveyed.
Instructor Prof. Sonny C. Lee
Textbook : Kaim, Schwederski : Bioinorganic Chemistry: Inorganic Elements in the Chemistry of Life, 1994
Outline: Tentative; topics are subject to change, deletion, or re-ordering, and new material
may be added depending on available time and student interest.
1. Introduction — Elements, Ligands, Functions
2. Physical Methods
3. Metals as Structural Elements
4. Lewis Acids — Hydrolases and Others
5. Small Molecule Chemistry — Oxygen
6. Biological Electron Transfer
7. Nitrogen Transformations
8. Bioorganometallic Chemistry
9. Uptake, Transport, and Storage
10. Abiogenesis — The Iron-Sulfur World?
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