This course examines the major chemical pollutants: their sources, the environmental reactions they undergo, and how they become distributed throughout the environment. Topics will be chosen from the major environmental toxicants: pesticides, natural products, inorganics, and industrial chemicals. The course explores the principal means of chemical and biological degradation of toxicants, and the processes by which chemicals move, concentrate, and dissipate. The details of the chemistry occurring in the atmosphere of the earth are examined.

This course focuses on enzyme mechanisms and stereochemistry, carbohydrate metabolism, glycolysis, glycogen breakdown and synthesis, transport across membranes, the citric acid cycle, electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation, the pentose phosphate pathway and the glycoxylate pathway, lipid metabolism, synthesis and role of ketone bodies, amino acid metabolism, and an overview of the urea cycle.

This course examines the application of advanced synthetic methodologies used in modern organic synthesis. Emphasis will be placed on the use of retrosynthetic analysis, stereochemical control, chemoselectivity, and protection/deprotection schemes

Environmental Chemistry (CHEM 4050U)

Biochemistry (BIOL 2040U)

Advanced Organic Chemistry (CHEM 3120U)

Teaching

This course will serve as an introductory course in Chemical Biology and examine the structure and function of various biological macromolecules, including proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids, alkaloids, small molecules, and unnatural scaffolds. Pharmaceutical implications will also be discussed.

Bio-Organic Chemistry (CHEM 4110U)