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Bioorganic chemistry
Bioorganic chemistry
is a rapidly growing
scientific discipline
that combines
organic chemistry
and
biochemistry
. While biochemistry aims at understanding
biological processes
using chemistry, bioorganic chemistry attempts to expand organic-chemical researches (that is, structures, synthesis, and kinetics) toward
biology
. When investigating
metalloenzymes
and
cofactors
, bioorganic chemistry overlaps
bioinorganic chemistry
.
Biophysical organic chemistry
is a term used when attempting to describe intimate details of
molecular recognition
by bioorganic chemistry.
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