CHEM 230: Organic Chemistry for Life Sciences

Fall 2024 – Office hours: 11:00 – 11:50 am (Mon, Wed, Fri), 1:00 – 2:00 pm (Wed), or by appointment

CHEM 430/530: Intermediate Organic Laboratory Techniques

Fall 2024 – Office hours: 1:00 – 3:00 pm (Wed) or by appointment


(See below for the courses taught previously)

 


Training Resources:

NMR processing with the Delta software from Jeol USA;       Recipes for visualizing TLC plates;     Chemical shifts for common solvents/impurities in NMR;
Abbreviations for Organic Chemsitry;     CombiFlash;     Reference videos from MIT Digital Lab Techniques Manual and University of Minnesota Organic Chemistry group

How to use serological pipettes and electronic pipette aid; How to use a micropipette (video 1 and video 2); Common knowledge about level II biosafety cabinet (videos 1, 2, 3 & 4); Making aliquots of FBS; Counting cells with a hemocytometer; Cell thawing, culturing and freezing

pH meter calibration and maintenance; Calculator for making buffers; Recipe calculator for SDS-PAGE; Gel casting for SDS-PAGE (video 1 and video 2)

 

Group Beginner Training by Peers:

Posted in May 2020

 

Synthesis of β-peracetylated glucose, produced by Princess Walker and Laurem Andrews
Protocol written by Kwabena Duah

 

 

 

Posted in Feb 2021

 

Synthesis of tetraacetate β-thioglucoside, produced by Laurem Andrews and Jada Harvey

 

 

 

 

Cell Culture LOG

Cell Culture LOG

 

Learning how to culture mammalian cells for cytotoxicity assays of small molecules

 

 

 

 

 


Previous Teaching:

CHEM 230: Organic Chemistry for Life Sciences

Fall 2022, Fall 2023

CHEM 231: Organic Chemistry 1

Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023

CHEM 232: Organic Chemistry 2

Summer 2019, Spring 2020

CHEM 241: Organic Chemistry 1 Lab

Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022

CHEM 242: Organic Chemistry 2 Lab

Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2023

CHEM 360: Essentials of Biochemistry

Spring 2024, Summer 2024

CHEM 361: Introductory Biochemistry Laboratory

Spring 2023, Spring 2024

CHEM 410: Review of Chemistry Fundamentals

Fall 2022

CHEM 430/530: Intermediate Organic Laboratory Techniques

Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2023

CHEM 636: Advanced Organic Chemistry

Fall 2021, Fall 2022