Natural Products

1.5 credits · Graduate

This course introduces the major groups of natural products, such as alkaloids, pollyketides and termenes. Strategies, techniques and structural/mechanistic reasoning used to elucidate biosynthetic pathways of natural products are presented before biosynthetic studies from current scientific literature are discussed. Examples include the biosynthesis of commercially important natural product pharmaceuticals. PREREQUISITES: Permission of the instructor FORMATS: Lecture | Seminar