KIM 518E - Bioinorganic Chemistry

Course Objectives

1. To introduce the biochemistry which forms with the overlap of chemistry and biology.
2. To explain the biological events (respiration, photosynthesis) with chemical reactions.
3. To explain the chemical structures of biological units.
4. To teach the importance of transition metal complexes as drugs in industry

Course Description

Introduction to biochemistry, the cell and its biochemical organization, metalloporphyrins, photosynthesis and respiration, hemoglobin, myoglobin, and cytochromes, blue copper proteins, functions of metal ions in genetik regulation, metal complexes as anticancer agents.