Chapter 29: Q39P (page 1192)
Draw the organic products formed in each reaction
Chapter 29: Q39P (page 1192)
Draw the organic products formed in each reaction
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Get started for freeGlutathione, a powerful antioxidant that destroys harmful oxidizing agents in cells, is composed of glutamic acid, cysteine, and glycine, and has the following structure:
a. What product is formed when glutathione reacts with an oxidizing agent?
b. What is unusual about the peptide bond between glutamic acid and cysteine?
Devise a synthesis of the following dipeptide from amino acid starting materials.
L-thyroxine, a thyroid hormone and oral medication used to treat thyroid hormone deficiency, is an amino acid that does not exist in proteins. Draw the zwitterionic form of L-thyroxine.
What is the structure of each amino acid at its isoelectric point: (a) alanine (b) methionine; (c)aspartic acid; (d) lysine?
Which of the following amines can be used to resolve a racemic mixture of amino acids?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
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