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CHEM 156Physical Biochemistry

Chemistry and Biochemistry · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Study of biochemical kinetics; solution thermodynamics of biochemical systems; multiple equilibria; hydrodynamics; and energy levels, spectroscopy, and bonding. Topics from structural, statistical, and electrochemical methods of biochemistry.

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Requisite: course 153A.

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CHEM 153A

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CHEM 156

  • CHEM 153ABiochemistry: Introduction to Structure, Enzymes, and Metabolism
    • CHEM 14DOrganic Reactions and Pharmaceuticals
      • CHEM 14CStructure of Organic Molecules1 more beneath
    • CHEM 30BOrganic Chemistry II: Reactivity, Synthesis, and Spectroscopy
      • CHEM 30AOrganic Chemistry I: Structure and Reactivity1 more beneath

1 direct requisite. Showing 5 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

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CHEM 156

  • CHEM C123AAdvanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics with Laboratory I
    • CHEM C123BAdvanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics with Laboratory IIanother path to it
  • CHEM C123BAdvanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics with Laboratory II
  • CHEM C223AAdvanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics with Laboratory I
    • CHEM C223BAdvanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics with Laboratory IIanother path to it
    • CH ENGR 201Methods of Molecular Simulation
  • CHEM C223BAdvanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics with Laboratory II
    • CHEM M223CNonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Molecular Biophysics
    • PHYSICS M215DNonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Molecular Biophysics
  • CHEM 230AMethods of Structural Molecular Biology: X-Ray Crystallography and Electron Microscopy
  • CHEM 269AProtein Structure
  • CHEM 269BBiocatalysis and Bioenergetics
  • CHEM 269CNucleic Acid Structure and Catalysis
  • CHEM 269DMechanism and Regulation of Gene Expression
  • CHEM 269EBiomolecular Structure, Catalysis, and Regulation

10 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 15 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

  • Fall 2025
  • Winter 2026
  • Spring 2026
  • Fall 2026
  • Winter 2027
  • Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.