Chapter 4: Q6TYU (page 56)
Identify the asymmetric carbon in this molecule:

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(a) The option 鈥渁鈥 is false.
(b) The option 鈥渂鈥 is true.
(c) The option 鈥渃鈥 is false.
(d) The option 鈥渄鈥 is false.
(e) The option 鈥渆鈥 is false.
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Chapter 4: Q6TYU (page 56)
Identify the asymmetric carbon in this molecule:

(a) The option 鈥渁鈥 is false.
(b) The option 鈥渂鈥 is true.
(c) The option 鈥渃鈥 is false.
(d) The option 鈥渄鈥 is false.
(e) The option 鈥渆鈥 is false.
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Why was Wohler astonished to find he had made urea?
Which action could produce a carbonyl group?
(A) the replacement of the 鈥揙H of a carboxyl group with hydrogen
(B) the addition of a thiol to a hydroxyl
(C) the addition of a hydroxyl to a phosphate
(D) the replacement of the nitrogen of an amine with oxygen
Suppose you had an organic molecule such as cysteine (see Figure 4.9, sulfhydryl group example), and you chemically removed the 鈥擭H2 group and replaced it with 鈥擟OOH. Draw this structure. How would this change the chemical properties of the molecule? Is the central carbon asymmetric before the change? After?
Which chemical group is most likely to be responsible for an organic molecule behaving as a base (see Concept 3.3)
hydroxyl
carbonyl
amino
phosphate
The synthesis of products is limited by the amount of reactants. (a) If one mole each of CH4, NH3, H2S, and CO2 is added to \({\bf{1}}\) liter of water in a flask, how many moles of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur are in the flask?
(b) Looking at the molecular formula in the table, how many moles of each element would be needed to make \({\bf{1}}.{\bf{0}}\) mole of glycine?
(c) What is the maximum number of moles of glycine that could be made in that flask, with the specified ingredients, if no other molecules were made? Explain.
(d) If serine or methionine were made individually, which element(s) would be used up first for each? How much of each product could be made?
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