Course Offerings: Guelph
CHEM 731/7310-01 - Conjugate Vaccines
Semester: Fall 2022
Professor: M. Monteiro
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Discipline: Biochemistry
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Campus: Guelph
CHEM 731(0)-01 covers the physical and immunogenic aspects of microbial polysaccharides and their use in conjugate vaccines. The course will cover the development of conjugate vaccines from target discovery to human clinical trials
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CHEM 731/7310-02 - Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Semester: Fall 2022
Professor: D. O'Flaherty
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Discipline: Biochemistry
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Campus: Guelph
This course provides students with general and specific aspects of selected key areas in bio-organic chemistry including with an emphasis on nucleic acids:
Structure and reactivity of nucleosides(tides), nucleic acids (roughly 80-90 % of course material)
Structure and reactivity of amino acids, peptides, proteins (roughly 10-20 % of course material)
Course Objectives
to learn and demonstrate familiarity with nucleic acid and peptide chemical ...
CHEM 760/7600 - Heteroatoms in Organic Synthesis
Semester: Fall 2022
Professor: A. Schwan
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Discipline: Organic
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Campus: Guelph
The course is intended to provide students with an understanding of the utility and mechanism of heteroatom-based functionalities in organic synthesis. The influence of the heteroatom will be emphasized with examples displaying how the heteroatom directs reactivity and where applicable, stereochemistry. Students will be required to deliver two seminars and write two research essays which, when totaled, will comprise a major component of their grade.
Method of ...
CHEM 731/7310-02 - Toxicology
Semester: Winter 2023
Professor: W. Gabryelski
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Discipline: Biochemistry
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Campus: Guelph
TBA
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CHEM 750/7500-01 - Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis
Semester: Winter 2023
Professor: L. Chen
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Discipline: Physical
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Campus: Guelph
1. Introduce basic concepts in heterogeneous catalysis
2. Provide systematic, first principles approach to the science of surface reactivity
3. Unify heterogeneous catalysis and electro-catalysis
4. Illustrate by examples, primarily in energy transformations
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CHEM 760/7600 - Carbohydrate Chemistry
Semester: Winter 2023
Professor: F.I. Auzanneau
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Discipline: Organic
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Campus: Guelph
COURSE OUTLINE AND TOPICS COVERED
Structure of monosaccharides: configurations, ring size, conformations, mutarotation, anomeric effect
Biological relevance of carbohydrates: disaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, biosynthesis and synthetic biochemical tools
Carbohydrate Synthetic Chemistry: A. Protecting groups in carbohydrate chemistry and synthetic strategies: Alkyls, acyls, silyls, acetals and ketals, selectivity etc… The ...
CHEM 784/7840 - Foundations of Chemistry and Biochemistry Research Literature Review
Semester: Winter 2023
Professor: D. O'Flaherty
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Campus: Guelph
CHEM 784(0) is a required one term course for all graduate students who are enrolled for an MSc degree; students must complete the requirements for CHEM 784(0) within their first two terms in the program and are strongly encouraged to take this course in their first term. CHEM 784(0) is offered in Fall and Winter terms.
The main goal of CHEM 784(0) is to encourage MSc students to learn to use scientific literature at an early stage of their program, to stimulate in-depth thinking ...
