Biochemistry: An Organic Chemistry Approach by Smith, Michael B.

Biochemistry: An Organic Chemistry Approach (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815367130)

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Biochemistry: An Organic Chemistry Approach by Smith, Michael B.

Biochemistry: An Organic Chemistry Approach

$280.00
Biochemistry: An Organic Chemistry Approach by Smith, Michael B.

Biochemistry: An Organic Chemistry Approach

$280.00
Format: Hardcover
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"There is a continuing demand for up to date organic & bio-organic chemistry undergraduate textbooks. This well planned text builds upon a successful existing work and adds content relevant to biomolecules and biological activity".

-Professor Philip Page, Emeritus Professor, School of Chemistry University of East Anglia, UK

"Introduces the key concepts of organic chemistry in a succinct and clear way".

-Andre Cobb, KCL, UK

Reactions in biochemistry can be explained by an understanding of fundamental organic chemistry principles and reactions. This paradigm is extended to biochemical principles and to myriad biomolecules.

Biochemistry: An Organic Chemistry Approach provides a framework for understanding various topics of biochemistry, including the chemical behavior of biomolecules, enzyme activity, and more. It goes beyond mere memorization. Using several techniques to develop a relational understanding, including homework, this text helps students fully grasp and better correlate the essential organic chemistry concepts with those concepts at the root of biochemistry. The goal is to better understand the fundamental principles of biochemistry.

Features:

  • Presents a review chapter of fundamental organic chemistry principles and reactions.
  • Presents and explains the fundamental principles of biochemistry using principles and common reactions of organic chemistry.
  • Discusses enzymes, proteins, fatty acids, lipids, vitamins, hormones, nucleic acids and other biomolecules by comparing and contrasting them with the organic chemistry reactions that constitute the foundation of these classes of biomolecules.
  • Discusses the organic synthesis and reactions of amino acids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids and other biomolecules.


Author: Michael B. Smith
ISBN-10: 0815367139
ISBN-13: 9780815367130
Publisher: CRC Press
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2020
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.88d

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Professor Michael B. Smith was born in Detroit, Michigan, and moved to

Madison Heights, Virginia, in 1957. He graduated from Amherst County

High School in 1964. He worked at Old Dominion Box Factory for a year

after graduation and then started college at Ferrum Jr. College in 1965. He

graduated in 1967 with an A.A. and began studies at Virginia Tech later that

year, graduating with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1969. He worked as a chemist at

the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co, Newport News, Virginia,

from 1969 until 1972. In 1972 he began studies in graduate school at Purdue

University in West Lafayette, Indiana, working with Prof. Joseph Wolinsky.

He graduated in 1977 with a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. He took a postdoctoral

position at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, working on the isolation of anti-cancer

agents from marine animals with Professor Bob Pettit. After one year, he took another postdoctoral

position at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, working on the synthesis of the anti-cancer drug

bleomycin with Professor Sidney Hecht.

Professor Smith began his independent career as an assistant professor in the Chemistry department

at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, in 1979. He received tenure in 1986, and

spent six months on sabbatical in Belgium, with Professor Leon Ghosez at the Universite Catholique

de Louvain in Louvain la Neuve, Belgium. He was promoted to full professor in 1994 and spent his

entire career at UCONN. Prof. Smith's research involved the synthesis of biologically interesting

molecules. His most recent work involved the preparation of functionalized indocyanine dyes for

the detection of hypoxic cancerous tumors (breast cancer). Another project involved the synthesis of

inflammatory lipids derived from the dental pathogen, Porphyromonas gingivalis.

He has published 26 books, including Organic Chemistry: An Acid-Base Approach, 2nd edition

(Taylor & Francis), the 5th-8th editions of March's Advanced Organic Chemistry (Wiley), and

Organic Synthesis, 4th edition (Elsevier), winner of a 2018 Texty Award. Prof. Smith published 96

peer-reviewed research papers and retired from UCONN in January of 2017.

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