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Carbohydrate Chemistry
Provider: Faculty of Science

Activity no.: 5771-16-10-31 
Enrollment deadline: 21/11/2016
PlaceHCØ
Universitetsparken 5, 2100 København Ø
Date and time21.11.2016, at: 00:00 - 29.01.2017, at: 16:00
Regular seats20
LecturersChristian Marcus Pedersen
ECTS credits7.50
Contact personGitte Runge    E-mail address: grunge@chem.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserGitte Runge    E-mail address: grunge@chem.ku.dk
Teaching languageEnglish
Semester/BlockBlock 2
Block note7 weeks + exam 6 hours per week
Exam requirementsPh.d. and candidate (master)
Exam formOral examination
Course workload
Course workload categoryHours
Lectures50.00
Paper20.00
Preparation100.00
Exam30.00

Sum200.00


Aim and content
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.

The aim of the course is to teach the students the fundamentals of carbohydrate structure and chemistry as well as advanced topics, such as protecting group chemistry that enable the selective transformations of monosaccharides, various approaches to the synthesis of the glycosidic linkage, oligosaccharide synthesis, carbohydrates as chiral pool and renewable resource (green chemistry), glycobiology and artificial vaccines.

Learning outcome
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.

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