Disciplines and Occupations

Bioinorganic Chemistry

Field of chemistry pertaining to the study of inorganic compounds or ions and their interactions with biological ligands at the molecular level.

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Abstract

Field of chemistry pertaining to the study of inorganic compounds or ions and their interactions with biological ligands at the molecular level.

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Synonyms

13 entry terms
  • Biochemistry, Inorganic
  • Biological Inorganic Chemistry
  • Chemistry, Bioinorganic
  • Biochemistries, Inorganic
  • Bioinorganic Chemistries
  • Biological Inorganic Chemistries
  • Chemistries, Bioinorganic
  • Chemistries, Biological Inorganic
  • Chemistry, Biological Inorganic
  • Inorganic Biochemistries
  • Inorganic Biochemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistries, Biological
  • Inorganic Chemistry, Biological

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

The discipline (education, history, etc) only; use CHEMICAL PHENOMENA or BIOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA or specifics treed under them for characteristics of inorganic substances interacting with biological substances.

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Previous Indexing

  • Biochemistry (1982-1993)
  • Bioinorganic Chemistry (1993-2008)
  • Chemistry (1966-1988)
  • Metalloproteins (1982-1993)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Bioinorganic Chemistry. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D015393. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D015393
  2. Bioinorganic Chemistry. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinorganic_chemistry
  3. Bioinorganic Chemistry. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q803925