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Carbon Compounds Isomers

Carbon Compounds Isomers. Monkemeier Honors Biology. Carbon Skeletons. The framework of biological molecules consists predominately of carbon atoms bonded to other carbon atoms or atoms of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen or sulfur. Carbon skeletons form the backbone of biological molecules

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Carbon Compounds Isomers

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  1. Carbon CompoundsIsomers Monkemeier Honors Biology

  2. Carbon Skeletons • The framework of biological molecules consists predominately of carbon atoms bonded to other carbon atoms or atoms of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen or sulfur. • Carbon skeletons form the backbone of biological molecules • Carbon skeletons occur in chains, branched chains or rings.

  3. Four Major Types of Biological Molecules and Carbon Skeletons! • The four major types of biological molecules: carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins. • Carbon chains often contain hydrogen. The C-C and C- H bonds are nonpolar since carbon and hydrogen have similar electronegativities.

  4. Functional Groups • Functional Groups are specific groups of atoms (that are covalently bonded together) that have definite chemical properties that they retain no matter where they occur. • Functional Groups attached to a “carbon – chain” molecule provide that molecule with their definite chemical properties!

  5. Functional Groups

  6. Carbon Skeletons and Isomers! • Isomers are compounds with the same chemical formula but different structural arrangements.

  7. Structural Isomers • When differences exist in in the actual structure of the carbon skeleton the compounds are structural isomers.

  8. Sterioisomers • These molecules have the same carbon skeleton but differ in how the groups attached to this skeleton are arranged.

  9. Enantiomers • A subcategory of sterioisomers that are mirror images of each other. • Chiral molecules are mirror images of each other. • Chiral molecules are characterized by their effect on polarized light and chiral molecules rotate to the left or right.

  10. Levorotatory rotates the molecule to the left and is designated L Dextrorotatory rotates the molecule to the right and is designated D. Chiral Molecules

  11. Chiral Molecules and Living Systems • Living systems tend to produce only a single enantiomer of the tow possible forms (L or D); for example, in most organisms: D – Sugars L – amino Acids

  12. HOW? • How do living systems build huge polymers like starch or enzymes? • Instead of building them one atom at a time, they build them one monomer at a time. • Monomers are molecules that act as subunits that when put together form polymers (large macromolecules).

  13. Monomers to Polymers

  14. Monomers to Polymers

  15. Dehydration Synthesis: Monomers to Polymers

  16. Polymers back to Monomers: Hydrolysis

  17. The Four Major Categories • Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins and nucleic acids are all built and broken down using the SAME TWO REACTIONS. • Dehydration Synthesis (aka condensation) forms bonds between monomers. • Hydrolysis (sometimes aka decomposition) breaks the bonds between monomers • In both reactions: DO NOT FORGET THE ROLE of WATER!

  18. NEXT TIME! • The four major categories of macromolecules! • WE LOVE AP!

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