Students will be familiar with the terminology and fundamentals of inorganic and organic chemistry including stoichiometry and general chemical reaction principles required to understand in vitro chemical processes.

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• Homogeneous and heterogeneous material systems
• Distribution and adsorption with respect to analytical separation methods
• Atomic and molecular science, especially with respect to stoichiometry and isotopes
• Knowledge of thermodynamics and application of thermodynamic laws to analytical procedures
• The law of mass action and its application in analytics and biological systems
• Reaction kinetics with regard to catalyzed reactions and radioactive decay
• Reaction equations
• Acids and bases, pH value
• Redox reactions
• Buffer systems
• Basics of organic chemistry (carbon chemistry and nomenclature)
• Reactions of organic compounds
• Calculating in chemistry
• Optics (e.g. Lambert-Beer law, wavelengths, refraction)

Zeeck A. et al. (2017), Chemie für Mediziner, Elsevier;
Mortimer C.E. & Müller U. (2015), Chemie: Das Basiswissen der Chemie, Thieme;
Brown T. L. at al (2018), Chemie. inkl. eLearning-Zugang: Studieren kompakt, Pearson;
Books, journals and websites according to the current state of knowledge in the respective fields.

Lectures, exercises

Module examination