Introduction into the basic chemical concepts used in biochemistry, medicine and biology and getting familiar with major classes of biomolecules.
Structure of water, chirality, introduction to kinetics, chemistry of major biomolecule classes: nucleic acids, proteins, carbohydrates and lipids; protein structure, RNA- and DNA-structure; structure-function relation of proteins, DNA and glycanes; enzymes and enzyme catalysis; introduction to basics and general principles of metabolism.