Guia docente 2016_17 Facultade de Ciencias do Mar

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Introduction to environment	Cycles of the elements in the environment
2. Pollution of marine environment	Generalities. Major sources of pollution
3. Metal speciation	Aerobic and anaerobic enviroments. Pourbaix diagrams
4. Metals and metallic species	General characteristics. Effects of metal complexation with natural ligands
5. Pollution by heavy metals	Biogeochemical cycles. Methylation processes
6. Reactivity of pollutants non-metallic chemical species	Introduction: carbonates, nitrates, phosphates...
7. Radioactive pollution in marine environment	Study, behavior and control of radioactive pollutants
8. Organic pollutants in the marine water	Classification. Functional and structural description. Origin of marine pollution
9. Chemical transformations of organic compounds	Solubility of organic compounds. Reactions of organic pollutants with nucleophilic species. Redox processes. Photochemical and biological transformations
10. Types of natural products	Terpenes, steroids and carotenoids. Oxigen compounds: Phenols, lignans, coumarins, macrolides and polyethers. Nitrogenous compounds: alkaloids, peptides
11. Marine natural products and their biologic function	Metabolite transfer in marine ecosystems. Biogenesis. Incorporation of halogens: Haloperoxidases
12. Marine ecology	Chemical interactions between organisms
13. Marine natural products in drug discovery	Organic compounds of marine origin: isolation, characterization and biological activity