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 |
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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 |
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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 |