Practical Approaches to Biological Inorganic Chemistry

Robert Crichton is Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Science, Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He has some forty years experience in teaching the subject, and published over 200 scientific articles and a number of books. Since 1985 he has organized a series of over twenty advanced courses on Metals in Biology in Louvain-la-Neuve, which have trained over 1300 doctoral and post-doctoral students, many of whom are today leaders in the field. The Second Edition of Biological Inorganic Chemistry: An Introduction to Molecular Structure and Function received the 2013 TEXTY Textbook Excellence Award in Physical Sciences from the Text and Academic Authors Association. Inorganic Biochemistry and NMR Laboratory ITQB-UNL Av da Republica (EAN), Portugal

1. A brief overview of the roles of metals in biological systems 2. Introduction to Ligand field theory and computational chemistry 3. Molecular magnetochemistry 4. EPR spectroscopy 5. Biological NMR spectroscopy and metals 6. Mossbauer Spectroscopy 7. BioXAS 8. Raman Spectroscopy 9. Electrochemical methods 10. X-ray Crystallography 11. Genetic/molecular Biological approaches