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On completion of this module students should be able to: draw structures of biomolecule monomers, such as amino acids, monosaccharides and nucleosides; design solution-phase synthetic routes to simple peptides; explain how to synthesize peptides on solid supports; design synthetic routes to simple oligosaccharides and oligonucleotides; describe and explain non-covalent interactions and role in moleculear recognition; describe some chemical mechanisms for biological catalysed processes; explain how inhibitors work and how inhibitors are designed; display a grasp of the thermodynamics of small molecule-receptor interactions; write organic mechanisms for selected processes and understand the basics of drug design.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 24 |
Tutorial | 6 |
Specified Learning Activities | 12 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 72 |
Total | 114 |
CHEM20040
Learning Recommendations:CHEM20050
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Assignment(Including Essay): Students are required to submit solutions to two problems sets related to the module content. | Week 5, Week 11 | Other | No | 20 |
No |
Assignment(Including Essay): Students are asked to submit a commentary essay on a specific topic within chemistry of biomolecules. | Week 15 | Graded | No | 20 |
No |
Exam (In-person): Knowledge of the course content will be examined in a two-hour exam at the end of the semester. | End of trimester Duration: 2 hr(s) |
Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 60 |
No |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Summer | Yes - 2 Hour |
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
The students are asked to submit their answers to tutorial questions during the course. The answers are corrected and returned then to the students, together with relevant feedbacks.
Name | Role |
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Assoc Professor Eoghan McGarrigle | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |