CHEM 339Methods and Tools for Biosyntheses

Units: 0.50
Faculty: Science
Subject: Chemistry

Not in the current Undergraduate Calendar. Shown as it appeared in 2024–25.

When it runs

Ran in 0 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

Biochemical reactions involved in respiration, fermentation, cell metabolism. Enzymatic reactions and their use in major industrial processes for transforming or producing chemicals. Biodigesters and bioreactors. Critical analysis of various processes using energy and mass balances.

Prerequisites

Complete all of the following
- Must have completed the following:
  - CHEM233 - Fundamentals of Biochemistry (0.50)
- Enrolled in H-Biochemistry, H-Biochemistry - Biotechnology Specialization, H-Chemistry, JH-Chemistry, H-Chemistry - Computational Specialization, or H-Medicinal Chemistry

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

CHEM 479

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Too much memorization but that's biochem. Assignments were long but content was super interesting

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2 posts and comments in 2 threads mention CHEM 339, October 2017 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Spring 2018

Jul 30, 2018 Chemistry fall courses (3b) 1 point, 0 comments

u/stranix13: “… So remaining options are natural products synthesis, spectroscopy in organic chem, and chem 339-biosynthesis. Or scom100 if I change to the new chemistry academic plan. …”

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Fall 2017

Oct 28, 2017 Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments

“posting a reply to my comment I find the bot annoying.”

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