| Credit |
6 points |
| Availability |
offshore teaching period (see Timetable) |
| Old unit code |
510.305 |
| Content |
This unit studies enzyme and co-enzyme chemistry, enzymes as catalytic proteins, mode of action and inhibition, co-enzymes as reagents; primary and secondary metabolism, carbon cycling, building blocks and mechanisms of construction; biosynthetic pathways to natural products, the acetate pathway (fatty acids and polyketides); the shikimate pathway; terpenes from the mevalonate and non-mevalonate pathways; alkaloids, peptides, proteins and carbohydrates; bioactive natural products, pharmaceuticals, medicinal compounds; production and manipulation of biosynthetic pathways; nutriceuticals, agrochemicals; chemical ecology, pheromones, defence substances, elicitors; and marine natural products. |
| Assessment |
This comprises mid-semester assessment (20 per cent), end-of-semester examination (50 per cent) and laboratory work (30 per cent).
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's pass degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete their course. |
| Unit Co-ordinator(s) |
Associate Professor Emilio Ghisalberti |
| Location |
Singapore |
| Mode |
on-campus |
| Unit Rules |
| Prerequisites: CHEM2210 Structure Determination and Physical Chemistry and CHEM2221 Biological and Medicinal Chemistry |
Contact hours—lectures: 2 hrs per week; labs: 50 hrs
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