Teaching activities

• MSc Chemistry: Inorganic chemistry IIIa - Bioinorganic chemistry (14C022) - 14 hrs - autumn
• Introduction to bioinorganic chemistry, common cofactors
• O2 storage and transport (myoglobin, hemoglobin)
• O2 reduction (multi-copper oxidases)
• Bioenergetics (free energies, redox "tower")
• Electron transport theories (Inner-sphere ET, Marcus theory)
• Biological electron transfer (redox cofactors, bacterial photosynthetic reaction center, protein environment, bifurcation)
• Bioelectrochemistry (protein/enzyme electrodes)
• Biological nitrogen fixation (nitrogenase)

 

 

• BSc Chemistry: Chimie minérale II (Inorganic chemistry II) (13C002) - 42 hrs - autumn

• Chemical reactions in inorganic chemistry (reaction rates, mechanisms and laws)
• Substitution reactions around metal centers (stability constants, crystal/ligand field, angular overlap, Jahn-Teller effect, interelectronic repulsion, stereochemistry of substitution reactions)
• Electron transfer reactions (inner-sphere, outer-sphere, self-exchange, cross-reactions, classical/semi-classical Marcus theory, kET vs. distance, intro to biological electron transfer)

 

 

• BSc Chemistry: General chemistry practical sessions for BSc Biology students (11C901 A) - Autumn 2019

Outreach Activities

• Podcast about Nitrogenase, featured on The Royal Society of Chemistry's "Chemistry World"

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In the media

Giada BEDENDI competes in "My Thesis in 180 seconds"!!