Faculty of Science

Carbohydrate Chemistry
Provider: Faculty of Science

Activity no.: 5771-20-10-34
	Enrollment deadline: 01/02/2021

Date and time	08.02.2021, at: 00:00 - 18.04.2021, at: 16:00
Regular seats	40
ECTS credits	7.50

Contact person	Christian Marcus Pedersen E-mail address: cmp@chem.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	Christian Marcus Pedersen E-mail address: cmp@chem.ku.dk
Semester/Block	Block 3
Block note	7 weeks + exam 6 hours per week
Exam requirements	Pd.d. and candidate (master)
Exam form	Oral examination

Content 1. To give an exhaustive description of carbohydrate structure, conformation and stereochemistry. 2. To give a description of most common and useful protection groups that are used to protect carbohydrates. 3. To be familiar with the most important modifications and functionalizations of the sugar ring. 4. To have a good understanding of how to use carbohydrates as starting materials in synthesis 5. To have a thorough knowledge about glycosylation methods and strategy. 6. To be familiar with glycoconjugate structure and biosynthesis 7. To have knowledge about glycobiology 8. To have a good understanding of methods for analysis and purification of carbohydrates Literature T. K. Lindhorst “Essentials of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, 3rd edition. Remarks Carbohydrates are the most abundant natural products, in line with their role as energy stores and structural building blocks in plants. They are versatile enough to serve as encoders of biological information and, last but not least, they are involved in a variety of molecular recognition processes. The exploration and exploitation of this class of extremely important molecules is an exciting and ever changing field.

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