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[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:0, Lb:0]
Knowledge of the content of CHM302 and CHM604 is essential to follow this course.
- This course will deal with the chemistry of important natural product
molecules.
- Natural product molecules I: Chemistry of stereoids. Classification,
synthesis and application of selected steroids.
- Natural product molecules II: Chemistry of alkaloids. Classification,
synthesis and application of selected alkaloids.
- Natural product molecules III: Chemistry of terpenes and terpenoids.
Classification, synthesis and application of selected terpenes and
terepenoids.
- Natural product molecules IV: Classification and structure of lipids
and their biofunctions.
- Natural product molecules V: Chemistry of antibiotics and vitamins.
Synthesis and application of selected molecules as drug molelcules.
- Natural product molecules VI: Prostaglandins. Nomenclature and
structure elucidation.
- J. Clayden, N. Greeves, S. Warren, P, Wothers, Organic
Chemistry, Oxford University Press, New York (2006).
- J. Mann, J. Harborne, R. S. Davidson, Natural Products: Their
Chemistry and Biological Significance, Longman (1994).
- I. L. Finar, Orgnic Chemistry, Vol 1 and 2, Indian Edition, 6th
Ed, Pearson Education Inc, New Delhi (2008).
- G. M. Loudon, Organic Chemistry, 4th Ed, Oxford University
Press, New York 2002.
- K. C. Nicolaou, T. Montagnon, Molecules That Changed The World,
1st Ed, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany (2008).
- D. Voet, J. Voet, Principles of Biochemisty, 3rd Ed, Wiley
(2005).
