Review Session Details
- Review Session will include tutoring with problem solving from past Midterms/Tests
- Types of intermolecular interactions in biochemistry (i.e. ionic and dipole interactions)
- The hydrophobic effect
- Three thermodynamic parameters: ∆H, ∆S and ∆G
- ∆G and equilibrium constants (Keq) of biochemical reactions
- Using the H-H equation to solve for pH, pKa and concentration of buffer
- Switch between line structure and Fisher projection for sugars
- Sugar stereochemistry (i.e. D/L sugars, enantiomers, diastereomers, epimers)
- Structural difference between Ribose, Glucose, Mannose and Galactose and Fructose
- The concept of mutarotation about the anomeric carbon
- Learn to convert between Fisher projections, Haworth projection and line structures
- Sugar function in a cellular context