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Chapter 21: Q20P (page 1000)

Why is excess ammonia used in the preceding reaction?

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Reductive amination involves the formation of amine from carbonyl compounds particularly aldehyde or ketone via from the imine intermediate.

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Reductive amination

Reductive amination involves the formation of amine from carbonyl compounds particularly aldehyde or ketone via from the imine intermediate.

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Explaination

In this reaction excess ammonia is used because one equivalent of ammonia first reacts with acidic proton and forms NH+4ion and loses its nucleophilicity. Then the remaining ammonia substitutes the Br-. So, excess of ammonia is used in this reaction.

The reaction is represented as follows:

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Cells can also convert a-keto acids into amino acids, but because the reagents organic chemists use for this reaction are not available in cells, they carry out this reaction by a different mechanism

(a) What amino acid is obtained from the reductive amination of each of the following metabolic intermediates in a cell by reductive amination?



(b)What amino acids are obtained from the same metabolic intermediates when the amino acids are synthesized in the laboratory?

What is the configuration about each of the asymmetric centres in aspartame?

Which is the more effective buffer at physiological pH, a solution of 0.1 M glycylglycine or a solution of 0.2 M glycine?

After the polypeptide shown below was treated with maleic anhydride, it was hydrolyzed by trypsin. (After a polypeptide is treated with maleic anhydride,

trypsin will cleave the polypeptide only on the C-side of arginine.)

Gly-Ala-Asp-Ala-Leu-Pro-Gly-Ile-Leu-Val-Arg-Asp-Val-Gly-Lys-Val-Glu-Val-Phe-Glu-Ala-Gly-

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a. After a polypeptide is treated with maleic anhydride, why does trypsin no longer cleave it on the C-side of lysine?

b. How many fragments are obtained from the polypeptide?

c. In what order will the fragments be eluted from an anion-exchange column using a buffer of pH = 5?

Esterase is an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of esters. It hydrolyzes esters of L-amino acids more rapidly than esters of D-amino acids. How can this enzyme be used to separate a racemic mixture of amino acids?
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