Organic Chemistry

Code:

CN11004

Acronym:

QORG

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Health Sciences
OFICIAL	Physical Sciences

Instance: 2020/2021 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Nutrition Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CNUP	123	Plano oficial	1	-	5,5	56	148,5

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The contributions that each one of you will receive for their scientific, professional and human formation are not in any way confined to school walls.

The main agent of that training is always each one of you asking questions and finding answers that will form part of the personal knowledge collected from multiple sources. The variety of these sources is increasingly wide in a world that, with the recent advances in information technology, increasingly resembles a large village. In old times the school could play the role of privileged and unquestioned source of knowledge, at present this role no longer makes sense.

The role of schools and teachers, in our view, is to encourage and assist the students in pursuit of their own training and to facilitate this process by proposing topics for study which act as stages of its formation. The choice of these themes, and the depth with which they are developed, is not an abstract exercise, impartial and inflexible, but rather the result of a series of questionable choices and continually reshaped by new challenges that science is proposing and also by personal experience of teachers, either as teachers or as researchers.

Being part of a series of topics proposed for the reflection of the students during their degree in Nutritional Sciences, this curricular unit of organic chemistry is very close to the curricular units of Biochemistry I (also taught in the first year of the course) and Biochemistry II and Biochemistry III (bought taught in the second year).

The same teaching staff is responsible for the four curricular units, with organic chemistry being understood by this team as a sub-step (in fact the first!) in the process of language acquisition needed for Biochemistry and in the knowledge of their methods of study and its fundamental laws.

In this sub-step we put particular emphasis on (1) the study of the chemical structures of the living organisms and (2) the study of general aspects of chemistry and organic chemistry, with particular interest for understanding the chemical transformation occurring in living organisms.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of this Curricular Unit, students should have acquired theoretical and/or practical skills to enable them:

• To identify the diversity of the composition of living organisms,

• To identify, understand and describe (theoretically and/or in the laboratory) the different structure and reaction characteristics of the molecules present in living organisms and/or food, and

• To understand the general mechanisms of enzymatic catalysis and regulation.

Working method

B-learning

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not applicable.

Program

Diversity of the composition of living organisms: organic and inorganic components.

Structures and reactional characteristics of molecules of living organisms and/or foods: functional groups and characteristic reactions of their identification; structure of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins; isomerism; glycosylation and glycation of proteins and lipids; water; acid-base equilibrium; oxidation-reduction reaction; kinetics and chemical reactions; osmotic balance; mineral water content; dietary antioxidants and food chemical changes.

General mechanisms of catalysis and enzyme regulation: enzymes and enzymatic reactions. Immobilization of enzymes. Alkaline phosphatase.

Mandatory literature

Nelson David L.; Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry. ISBN: 978-0-7167-7108-1
Patrick Graham L.; Beginning organic chemistry. ISBN: 0-19-855936-4
Jones Jr. Maitland; Organic chemistry. ISBN: 978-0-393-93713-8

Complementary Bibliography

Thomas M. Devlin; Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlations, 2010
Brody Tom; Nutritional biochemistry. ISBN: 0-12-134836-9
Rodwell VW, Bender DA, Botham KM, Kennelly PJ, Weil PA; Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry

Teaching methods and learning activities

Teaching methodologies:

Weekly/per student: 2 lectures of 1 h each (for 13 weeks) and 1 practical session of 2 h (for 13 weeks). Students will be required to perform 3 written intermediate assessment (IA) tests, answering a set of multiple-choice questions.

The distribution of the themes for each of the IAs, and their corresponding schedule, will be as follows:
IA1: lectures T1 to T8, inclusive + practical classes 1Z, 2P and 2A, inclusive, 13H30, online, on 13/11/2020 (maximum duration of 1h),
IA2: lectures T9 to T14, inclusive + practical classes 3P, 3A and 4P, inclusive, 13h30 on 04/12/2020 (maximum duration of 1h), and
IA3: lectures T15 to T21, inclusive + practical classes 5P, 5A, 6Z, inclusive, further information provided later by FCNAUP.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Teste	90,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	102,00
Frequência das aulas	21,00
Trabalho laboratorial	20,00
Total:	143,00

Eligibility for exams

Attendance at least of 75% of pratical classes and at least 10 points out of 20 points in pratical classes evaluation.

Or

At least 10 points ​​out of 20 points in the evaluation of the extra written work (comprising the mandatory answer to 9 quizzes regarding the practical classes), for students with special status who choose not to attend practical classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

Ordinary students

First evalution period

FC = (0.30 x IA1 + 0.30 x IA2 + 0.30 x IA3) + 0.1 x PC

FC - final classification (ou of 20 points)
IA1 - classification obtained in the first intermediate assessment (out of 20 points)
IA2 - classification obtained in the second intermediate assessment (out of 20 points)
IA3 - classification obtained in the third intermediate assessment (out of 20 points)
PC - classification of the performance obtained at the pratical classes (out of 20 points), calculated as follows:

 PC = (0.6 x S + 0.4 x GW)

S – mean classification obtained in synchronous practical classes (presential and distance learning) (out of 20 points)

GW – mean classification obtained in group works about assynchronous practical classes (out of 20 points)

The 3 IAs are mandatory for approval at this curricular unit.
Minimum classification in each of the 3 intermediate assessments: 8.0 points (out of 20 points) without rouding. 
Minimum final classification for approval at this curricular unit: 10 points ​​(out of 20 points).
Group works submitted after the deadline will have a 20% penalty in the classification.

Second evalution period

FC= 0.9 x FE + 0.1 x PC

FC - final classification (out of 20 points)
FE- classification of the final exam (out of 20 points)
PC - classification of the performance obtained at the pratical classes (out of 20 points), calculated as follows:

 PC = (0.6 x S + 0.4 x GW)

S – mean classification obtained in synchronous practical classes (presential and distance learning) (out of 20 points)

GW – mean classification obtained in group works about assynchronous practical classes (out of 20 points)

Minimum classification in the classification of the final exam: 8.0 points (out of 20 points) without rouding. 
Minimum final classification for approval at this curricular unit: 10 points ​​(out of 20 points).
Group works submitted after the deadline will have a 20% penalty in the classification.