Introduction to Chemical Biology 128. Lecture 04. Combinatorial Chemistry and Biology.

UCI Chem 128 Introduction to Chemical Biology (Winter 2013)
Lec 04. Introduction to Chemical Biology -- Combinatorial Chemistry and Biology
Instructor: Gregory Weiss, Ph.D.

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

Description: Introduction to the basic principles of chemical biology: structures and reactivity; chemical mechanisms of enzyme catalysis; chemistry of signaling, biosynthesis, and metabolic pathways.

This video is part of a 18-lecture undergraduate-level course titled "Introduction to Chemical Biology" taught at UC Irvine by Professor Gregory Weiss.

Recorded on January 17, 2013.

Index of Topics:
0:28:06 MO Theory
0:32:32 Do Not Use Curved Arrows for Hydrogen Bonds
0:34:00 The Molecules of Life on Earth
0:37:40 Chemistry of CN
0:50:27 Formation of DAMN
0:53:32 Prebiotic Synthesis
1:06:29 Oligomers of Nucleotide Subunits
1:08:00 The RNA World
1:09:19 Synthesis of Amino Acids
1:12:35 Non-Covalent Interactions Dominate Biology
1:16:35 Charge-Charge Interactions

[YoAddicts]

For interested individuals, one should also refer to the Born-Oppenheimer approximation.

[alicevo]

At 1:14:47, Coulomb's law is incorrectly written out. The 4(pi) should be in the denominator.

[postbodzapism]

The setting that the screen has to go up each time he wants to write on the whiteboard is stupid. This is time consuming.