BMB 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Dehydrogenation, Hydrogen Bond, Tartaric Acid
2 Jan 2018
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*exam i-wed feb 1st @9am (covers chapters 10 and 11 in book and lecture material up to and including friday jan 27th. The symbol [h] can be used to represent hydrogen atoms that are transferred. Hydrogenation converts liquid vegetable oils into solids for animal fat substitutes. Oxidation and reduction reactions: the dehydration reaction is an example of an oxidation reaction. They are often the same ones that accept the hydrogen atoms in oxidations. The naming and properties of aldehydes and ketones: aldehydes contain a carbonyl group on an end carbon. The aldehyde group is the carbonyl and the neighboring hydrogen: to name an aldehyde name the carbon chain and replace the -e with -al. Jan. 25, 2017: aldehydes do not need a number to designate where the carbonyl group is because it is automatically carbon number one, aldehyde groups can be abbreviated to -cho.
