Course Overview

This courses aims to provide students with general knowledge in the synthesis of biomolecules, which is applied either to prepare small molecules to probe target DNA/proteins, or to develop efficient methods to study biological questions. Therefore seven weeks are used to cover the synthesis, while the remaining is to talk about famous examples. Students who want to take the course need to pass the undergraduate course of organic chemistry (two semester courses with at least 2 hours per week).

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It is also recommended to have basic concept in biochemistry, at least to be aware of what are the structures of amino acids, nucleic acids and sugars.

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*Registration eligibility: graduate students.

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