Teaching Structural Diversity of Hexoses to Graduate and Postgraduate Students: Methods to Correlate Stereochemistry

Autor/inn/en	Arya, Aditya; Kumar, Amit
Titel	Teaching Structural Diversity of Hexoses to Graduate and Postgraduate Students: Methods to Correlate Stereochemistry
Quelle	In: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 48 (2020) 1, S.8-20 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Arya, Aditya) ORCID (Kumar, Amit)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1470-8175
DOI	10.1002/bmb.21305
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Graduate Students; Science Instruction; Biochemistry; Metabolism; Biology; Correlation; Recall (Psychology) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Biochemie; Stoffwechsel; Biologie; Korrelation; Abberufung
Abstract	Carbohydrates, or in strictly chemical terms, polyhydroxy-aldehydes or ketones represent enormous structural diversity in terms of the arrangement of atoms in space, resulting in hundreds of stereoisomers. Although the chemical properties of most stereoisomers may not be very different, their metabolic fate and utilization in biological systems is significantly different and known to influence the overall carbohydrate metabolism. This dictates the importance of understanding the structures of various stereochemical structures for a biochemist. At graduate level teaching, it is really a challenging task to correlate, connect, and recall all the structures. Conventional teaching methods and standard textbook illustrations seldom enable the learners and instructors to sustain the information for a prolonged period. We, in this article, present a unique approach and introduce sigma notation rules for the correlation of stereochemistry of carbohydrates in order to enhance the understanding of stereochemical structures. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01