(Department)  Biomedical Engineering         (Division)      Biomaterials
 
 (Level and Major)   BSc         
 

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Course Title                Applied Chemistry for Biomaterial 2: Organic and Biochemistry                              
 
Number of Credits       3             Prerequisite 

Course Description:
This course offers students the opportunity to learn the nature of carbon in organic compounds. It presents general principles of organic chemistry related to structure, stereochemistry, nomenclature, synthesis, uses, and reactions of alcohols, aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons; Alkanes, alkynes, alkenes, Cycloalkanes and also biological compounds structure and reactions.
 
Course Topics:
1- Introduction to applied chemistry in biomaterials course
2-Chemical bonds and interactions (covalent bonds and their hybridization, van der Waals interactions)
3- Chemical structures
4- Isomerism
5- Organic molecules and their nomenclature
6- Alkene and Alkynes (structures, properties, nomenclature, reactions and synthesis)
7- Stereochemistry
8- Aromatic compounds (structures, properties, nomenclature, reactions and synthesis)
9- Electrophilic and Nucleophilic additions
10- Substitution reactions
11- Elimination reactions
12- Thermodynamics and kinetics of reactions
13- Acids and Bases
14- Buffers
15- Solubility and properties of solvents
16- Polar and non polar solvents
17- Introduction to biological organic compounds18-Amino acids (properties and reactions)
19- Proteins (properties and reactions)
20- Lipids (properties and reactions)
21- Carbohydrates (properties and reactions)
22- Enzymes: biological catalysts
23- Mechanism and control of enzymatic reactions
 
The course aims to:
Students should be able to:

• name organic compounds from the major classes, use stereochemical terminology to describe the three-dimensional structure of organic compounds and correlate chemical and physical properties or organic compounds to their structure
• account for basic organic reactions such as proton transfer, addition, substitution, elimination, oxidation and reduction in organic chemistry
• explain and account for technical production and industrial use of some important organic compounds and carry out basic economic and environmental assessments in connection thereby
• describe the structure of commonly occurring biomolecules and synthetic macromolecules and be familiar with spectroscopic methods routinely used by organic chemists

           
Reading Resources:

1. Organic Chemistry. (Morrison, Robert Thornton; Boyd, Robert Neilson). Prentice Hall; 6th edition (January 17, 1992)
2. Fundamentals of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry (by John McMurry, et al). Published by Pearson Education, 2010.
3. Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, (by David L. Nelson; Michael M. Cox.) Published by W.H. Freeman; Sixth edition (November 21, 2012)

 
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