CHE 3307 - Physical Chemistry for Bio

Credits: 4
This course introduces the fundamental theories of physical chemistry within the context of biological systems and highlights how physical chemistry can be used to gain insight into biochemical and biological systems. The topics discussed include thermodynamics and its application to energy flow in biological cells, kinetics of life processes, quantum mechanics and how it explains the structure of atoms, molecules, and macromolecules such as proteins, and finally biochemical spectroscopy that is used to reveal the molecular structure. The associated laboratory will utilize biological systems to explore the concepts covered in lecture.This course covers the fundamental theories of physical chemistry and their application to chemical and biological systems. Specifically, students will be exposed to three different sets of theories including the theories of quantum mechanics and their application to electronic and molecule structure and spectroscopy; thermodynamics theories and their application to energy transfer and chemical and physical equilibrium; and finally kinetic theories and their application to molecular motion, transport properties and chemical reaction rates.
 

 
Prerequisites CHE-1102 or CHE-1104 and MAT-1117
Co-requisite CHE-3007