Subject Code: CY7L011 Subject Name: Advanced Bio-inorganic Chemistry L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Prerequisite(s): Nil
Overview of bioinorganic chemistry.Properties of biological molecules.Physical methods in bioinorganic chemistry. Choice,uptake and assembly of metal containing units in biology. Transition metal storage, transport and biomineralization. Electron-transfer proteins: Blue copper proteins, long distance electron transfer. Atom and group transfer chemistry in Fe and Mo:Cytochrome P450, methane monooxygenase, catechol and other dioxygenase, molybdenum oxotransferases. The frontiers of bioinorganic chemistry.Metal/Nucleic-acid interactions.Metals in medicine.
Text/ Reference Books:
  1. Lippard & Bartini Bioinorganic Chemistry.
  2. Reedijk J. Bioinorganic Catalysis, Marcel Dekker.
  3. Kaim W.; Schwederski B. and Klein A. Bioinorganic Chemistry: Inorganic elements in the   chemistry of life, Wiley.