Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design

BioInorganic Chemistry

Bioinorganic chemistry is a field that explore the role of metals in biology. Bioinorganic chemistry includes the study of both natural phenomena such as the behaviors of metalloproteins as well as artificially introduced metals, including those that are unnecessary, in medicine and toxicology. Many biological processes such as respiration depend upon molecules that fall within the field of inorganic chemistry. The discipline also includes the study of inorganic models or mimics that assume the behaviour of metalloproteins.

As a mix of biochemistry and inorganic chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry is important in explicate the implications of electron-transfer proteins, substrate bindings and activation, atom and group transmission chemistry as well as metal properties in biological chemistry.