CHEM 140 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Maximum Capacity, Scurvy, Myoglobin

• School: CSULB
• Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
• Course: CHEM 140
• Professor: P Pierce

Document Summary

Serve as a source of carbon atoms for the biosynthesis of many molecules. Have structural elements for some cells and tissues. Produced by photosynthesis in plants, synthesized in plants, oxidized in living. Classified by monosaccharides, disaccharide, oligosaccharide(3-10), and organisms-> respiration. Aldose = monosaccharides with an aldehyde group and many hydroxyl group polysaccharide. Ketose = monosaccharides with an carbonyl on the second carbon and many between atoms, but the atoms have a different spatial arrangement. Compounds with the same chemical formula that have the same connections. Have the property chirality = an object that cannot be superimposed on it mirror. Structural isomers: molecules have bonded together in a different image order carbon atoms) Chiral carbon: carbon that has four different groups attached to it. Chiral center: central carbon with four different groups attached. Any molecule that contains a chiral carbon will exist as stereoisomers. The number of stereoisomers can be found by 2^n (n = number of chiral.