CHMA10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Deoxyribose, Cyclobutane, Socalled

• School: UTSC
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHMA10H3
• Professor: Xiao- An Zhang

Document Summary

Recognition biomimicry or biomimetics the use of natural biological systems to assist in the design of new materials or reactions (a biomimetic process is a human-made process that imitates nature. ) Non-covalent intermolecular attraction between molecules at the ends of gecko feet and the surfaces of a wall make climbing up a vertical wall possible. We identify molecules of different substances based on absorption peaks and signal patterns in spectrometers and other instruments. (infrared spectroscopy, gas chromatography mass spectrometry) Ie, odours of spearmint and caraway oilcarvone molecules with same chemical formula and connectivity (difference is in their orientation in three-dimensional space their stereochemistrychiral stereoisomers) different non-covalent interactions with chiral receptor molecules in your nosebrain processes different odours. Polarimetry experiment that measures the way substances rotate plane-polarized light shows that carvone molecules from these two sources have different configurations at one carbon atom. (non super-imposable mirror images of each other. )