CHEM 402 Bioinorganic Chemistry
A one-semester lecture course with primary focus on the role that transition metals play in biological processes. Discussion of structures of active sites of metalloenzymes and the mechanisms of the reactions they promote, in terms of existing experimental data on the native systems and model compounds. Systems included are oxygen binding and transport, heme and non-heme electron transfer, copper blue proteins, nitrogen fixation, and inorganic pharmaceuticals. Prerequisites: 501 or 571 or permission of instructor.