BCH 2333/2733
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Intermolecular Interactions,
Thermodynamics and
pH/Buffers
Review Session Details
- Review Session will include tutoring with problem solving from past Midterms/Tests
- Understand how to assess amino acid stereochemistry
- Switch between line structure and Fisher projection for amino acids
- Learn the mechanism for the formation of a amide bond
- Review 20 natural amino acids and their pKas
- Amino acid charge at various pH and its isoelectric point (pI) values
- Composition of DNA and RNA nucleic acids
- DNA structure (i.e. base tautomerization, classic base pair H-bonding, c2/c3 endo sugar rings)
- Understand the inter- and intramolecular interaction in a DNA double helix
- Analyse and understand DNA secondary structures (i.e. DNA helices: A, B, and Z)
- Drawing oligomers of DNA and RNA
- Mechanism for the formation of a phosphodiester bond
- Identifying nucleic acid base pairing and tautomers
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$40
for 4.5-Hours
Carbohydrates
DNA/RNA Nucleotides
and Amino Acids
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
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