Course Calendar

Last Updated 31 November, 2019

Week Day Topic Assignment Due or Supplemental Reading Available
1 Monday, 19 Aug Course Introduction, Organic Chemistry Functional Groups Supplemental: Organic Chemistry Functional Group Chart
Wednesday, 21 Aug  
2 Monday, 26 Aug Naming Organic Molecules

Supplemental handout on IUPAC Names or Organic Compounds

Supplemental handout on Naming Organic Compounds

Quiz 1: Organic Chemistry functional groups

Wednesday, 28 Aug Behavior of Organic Molecules/Intermolecular forces
3 Monday, 2 Sep No Class Labor Day
Wednesday, 4 Sep General Acid/Base Theory and Weak acid/base theory Quiz 2: Intermolecular forces
4 Monday, 9 Sep Buffers
Wednesday, 11 Sep   Problem Set 1 Due
5 Monday, 16 Sep Review for Test 1
Wednesday, 18 Sep Test 1
6 Monday, 23 Sep Amino acids: Structure and Behavior

Biochemistry Chapter 3.1 and Chapter 3.2

You should be able to answer the first 10 problems of Chapter 3 after this lecture

Wednesday, 25 Sep Proteins 1: Structure and Folding

Biochemistry Chapter 3.3 and 3.4

You should be able to do all of the problems at the end of Chapter 3

7 Monday, 30 Sep   Quiz 3: Amino acids
Wednesday, 2 Oct Proteins 2: Enzymes

Biochemistry Chapter 7

Supplemental: Enzyme Kinetics 4.1 - 4.2.6.3

Supplemental: Enzyme Kinetics 4.2.7 - 4.2.7.8

Handout on using a Texas Instruments graphing calculator to analyze kinetic data

8 Monday, 7 Oct   Quiz 4: Protein structure and Enzymes
Wednesday, 9 Oct Proteins 3: Enzyme control/regulation and active sites Problem Set 2 Due
9 Monday, 14 Oct No class Fall Break
Wednesday, 16 Oct Review for Test 2
10 Monday, 21 Oct Test 2
Wednesday, 23 Oct Reaction mechanisms: Why do enzymes and substrates react the way they do? Reread Biochemistry Chapter 7.1
11 Monday, 28 Oct More mechanisms  
Wednesday, 30 Oct Cysteine Protease Reaction Mechanism in Detail  
12 Monday, 4 Nov Lipids and Biological Membranes Biochemistry Chapter 5
Wedmesday, 6 Nov Carbohydrates Biochemistry Chapter 6
13 Monday, 11 Nov   Quiz 7 Lipids, Memrbanes and Simple Carbohydrates
Wednesday, 13 Nov Glycolysis Biochemistry Chapter 8
14 Monday, 18 Nov Glycolysis continued
Wednesday, 20 Nov Review for Test 3 Problem Set 3 Due
15 Monday, 25 Nov Test 3
Wednesday, 27 Nov No Class Thanksgiving Break
16 Monday, 2 Dec Review for Final Exam