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Ch 4 Carb Structure And Function Flashcards

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Monosaccharides

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Most basic structural unit of carbs

Formula is Cn(H2O)n

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Trioses
Tetroses
Pentoses
Hexoses

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Simplest monosaccharides containing three Cs
Tetroses contain 4 Cs
Pentoses contain 5
Hexoses contain 6

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Aldoses

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Carbs that contain aldehydes as their most oxidized functional group

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Ketoses

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Carbs that contain alcohols with ketones as their most oxidized functional group

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Glyceraldehyde

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Simplest Aldose - an aldotriose

A polyhydroxylated aldehyde

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Dihydroxyacetone

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Simplest ketose also participates in glycosidic bonds

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Commonly tested carbs

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D-Fructose
D-glucose
D-galactose
D-mannose

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Optical isomers

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Also called stereoisomers

All share chemical formula

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Enantiomers

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Share chemical formula and are nonsuperimposable, nonidentical, mirror images of each other
Same sugar in different optical families

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D and L naming convention

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D-+ has a positive rotation
L-+ has negative
All D sugars in Fischer projection have hydroxide of their highest numbered chiral center on right and L sugars have that hydroxide on the left

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Diastereomers

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Two sugars that are in the same family (both ketoses or both aldoses with same number of carbons) that are not identical and are not mirror images

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Epimers

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A special subtype of diastereomers that differ in configuration at exactly one chiral center

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Equation for number of stereoisomers with a common backbone for a given molecule

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2 to the power n

Where n = number of chiral carbons.

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Hemiacetals

And hemiketals

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Monosaccharides have an Oh group (nucleophile) and a CO group (electrophile)
And can therefore undergo intramolecular reactions to form cyclic hemiacetals (from aldoses) and hemiketals (from ketoses)

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Pyranose

And furanose

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Six-membered and 5-membered rings respectively - only cyclic molecules that are stable in solution due to ring strain

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Anomeric carbon

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Carbonyl carbon that becomes chiral in the process of formation of either a hemiacetal or hemiketal

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Anomers

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Two molecules that differ at the anomeric carbon

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Alpha anomer

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In glucose, has the oh group is C-1 trans to the -CH2OH substituent (axial and down)
Left

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Beta anomer

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Has -OH group of C-1 cis to the -CH2OH substituent (equatorial and up)
Right

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Haworth projection

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When converting a Fischer projection to this everything on the right will point down

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Mutarotation

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Spontaneous change of configuration of hemiacetals around C-1
Exposing them to water causes them to cycle bt open and closed forms forming either alpha or beta anomer
Occurs rapidly when catalyzed with acid or base

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Aldonic acids

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Oxidized aldoses
Monosaccharides switching between anomeric configurations and spending time in open chain aldehyde form are oxidized to carboxylic acids to form aldonic acids
Because they can be oxidized they are reducing agents

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Reducing sugar

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Any monosaccharide with an acetal ring

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Lactone

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When aldose is in ring form oxidation yields a lactone
Contains a cyclic ester (O as part of the ring)
Vit C is an example

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Tollen’s reagent

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Utilizes Ag(NH3)sub2+1charge as an oxidizing agent
In positive Tollen’s test aldehydes reduce Ag+ to metallic silver
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Benedict’s reagent

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Aldehyde group of aldose is readily oxidized

Indicated by a red precipitate of Cu2O

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Tautomerization

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Rearrangement of bonds in a compound usually by moving a hydrogen and forming a double bond
The ketone group picks up a hydrogen while the double bond moves between two adjacent carbons forming an enol

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Enol

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Compound with double bond and alcohol group

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Aditol

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When the aldehyde group of an aldose us reduced to an alcohol

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Deoxy sugar

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Contains a hydrogen that replaces a hydroxyl group on the sugar

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Phosphorylation

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Extremely important metabolic reaction of glycolysis in which a phosphate group is transferred from ATP to glucose

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Acetals

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Hemiacetals react with alcohols

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Glycosidic bonds

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Anomeric hydroxyl group is transformed into an alkoxy group yielding a mixture of alpha and beta acetals with water as the leaving group
These are the resulting C-O bonds

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Glycosides

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Hemiacetals react with alcohols to form acetals. The resulting acetals are held together in mixture with alpha and beta acetals via C-O bonds called glycosidic bonds. And the acetals are known as glycosides.

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Furanosides

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Glycosides derived from furanose rings

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Pyranosides

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Glycosides derived from pyranose rings

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Disaccharide

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Glycosidic bonds formed between two monosaccharides result in formation of this
The hydroxyl group on the anomeric carbon of one reacts with hydroxyl

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Important disaccharides

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Maltose - two glucose molecules linked by alpha 1,4 glycosidic bond
Sucrose - glucose - alpha - 1,2 - fructose
Lactose - galactose - beta - 1,4 - glucose

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Homopolysaccharide

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A polysaccharide entirely composed of one type of molecule such as glucose

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Heteropolysaccharide

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Polymer made of more than one type of monosaccharide

41
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Three most important biological polysaccharides

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Cellulose, starch, and glycogen

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Cellulose

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Main structural component of plants. Homopolysaccharide chain of beta D glucose linked by beta 1,4 glycosidic bonds
Humans cannot digest

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Starches

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Polysaccharides that are more digestible by humans because they are linked alpha D glucose monomers
Plants store it primarily as amylose
There is also amylopectin

44
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Amylose

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Starch
Linear glucose polymer linked via alpha 1,4 glycosidic bonds
Degraded by alpha-amylase and beta-amylase

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Amylopectin

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Starts with the same type of linkage that amylose exhibits but also contains branches via alpha 1,6 glycosidic bonds
Debranching enzymes help degrade this

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Beta-amylase

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Cleaves amylose at the nonreducing end of the polymer (the end with the acetal) to yield maltose

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Alpha-amylase

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Cleaves randomly along the chain to yield shorter polysaccharide chains, maltose and glucose

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Glycogen

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Carb storage unit in animals
Similar to starch except or had more alpha-1,6 glycosidic bonds which makes it highly branched which optimizes energy efficiency and makes it more soluble in solution allowing more glucose to be stored in the body

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Glycogen phosphorylase

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Functions by cleaving glucose from the nonreducing end of a glycogen branch and phosphorylating it and producing glucose 1-phosphate which plays an important role in metabolism

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