Teaching activities
The Department of Chemistry offers a course of basic chemistry of biological substances for medical school students. The aim of the course is to provide the students with basic knowledge and trainings of chemistry for future understanding of functions and properties of living organisms. The course consists of lectures and student practice course.
The contents to be covered in the lecture include; basic theory of organic chemistry, physical chemistry for medical sciences, structure of biomolecules and its relations to their roles in living organisms, chromatography and spectrometry analysis of compounds related to medical sciences.
The student practice course contains of the following subjects
Chemistry of nucleotides: Identification of ribonucleotide with two or three phosphate groups by measurement of its UV spectrum and determination of total and acid-labile phosphate groups.
Lipid Chemistry: Determination of fatty acid composition of oil and fats by gas-liquid chromatography; Analysis of polar lipid composition of soybean, E. coli, and some commercial products by thin-layer chromatography.
HPLC chromatographic separation of D-valine and L-valine after formation of their diastereomers with 2,4-dinitro-5-fluoro-L-phenylalanine amide.
[update 9. 6, 2004 edited by Dept.of Chemistry]