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Chem and Bio Review Flashcards

1
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Angstrom

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10 Å = 1 nm

Distance between atoms

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Nanometer

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1 nm = 10^-9 m

Dimensions in macromolecules

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Micron/micrometer

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1 μm = 10^-6 m

Dimensions of cells and cellular structures (organelles and bacteria)

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4
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Biochemicals are primarily composed of which atoms?

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Hydrogen, Carbon, Oxygen, Phosphorus, Nitrogen, and Sulfur

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Amine

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Structure 
RNH2 or RN+H3
R2NH or R2N+H2
R3N or R3N+H
Functional group: amino group
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Alcohol

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Structure: ROH

Functional group: hydroxyl group

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Thiol

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Structure: RSH

Functional group: sulfhydryl group

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Ether

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Structure: ROR
Linkage: ether linkage —O—

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Aldehyde

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Structure: RCHO

Functional group: carbonyl group

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Ketone

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Structure: R2C=O

Functional group: carbonyl group

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Carboxylic acid

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Structure: RC=OOH or RC=OO-

Functional group: carboxyl group (neutral) or carboxylate group (negative charge)

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Ester

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Structure: RC=OOR
Functional group: acyl group RC=O
Linkage: ester linkage -C=OO-

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Thioester

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Structure: RC=OSR
Functional group: acyl group
Linkage: thioester linkage

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Amide

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Structure:
RC=O-NH2
RC=O-NHR
RC=O-NHR2

Functional group: amido group (O=C—N—) or acyl group

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Imine

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Structure:
R=NH or R=N+H2
R=NR or R=NHR

Functional group: imino group (C=N)

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16
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Phosphate ester

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R-phosphate group

Functional group: phosphoryl group

17
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Diphosphate ester

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Structure:
R-phosphate group 1-phosphate group 2

Functional group: phosphoanhydride group

18
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Phosphate diester

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Structure:
R-phosphate group-r
Linkage: phosphodiester linkage

19
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What are covalent forces?

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Shared electrons between atoms
Determine how monomers link together to form biological polymers
1-2 Å

20
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What are the non-covalent forces?

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  1. Electrostatic
  2. Hydrogen bonds
  3. van der Waals interactions
  4. Hydrophobic interactions
21
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What are the properties of electrostatic interactions?

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  1. Ion pairs (full positive with full negative)
    a. 86 kJ/mol
    b. up to 10 Å
    c. Strength falls off with 1/d^2 (falls off slowly over distance)
    d. depends on pH
  2. Dipole-dipole (neutral molecules)
    a. due to uneven distribution of charge in a molecule
    b. 9 kJ/mol (weaker electrostatic interaction)
    c. 3-10 Å
    d. Causes charge separation
22
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What are the properties of hydrogen bonds?

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A. Need an electron pair donor and acceptor
B. Happens between H and O or N
C. Linear (makes this interaction stronger than dipole-dipole)
D. 1.5-2 Å (short interaction due to linearity)

23
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What are the properties of van der Waals interactions?

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A. Weak attractive forces found in all atoms due to attractive and repulsive components (nuclei and electron clouds)
B. Electron cloud overlap = strong repulsion
C. Attraction proportion to 1/r^6 (Falls off rapidly with distance) but increases over distance
D. Repulsion proportional to 1/r^12 (stronger over longer distances than attraction)
E. 3.5-4 Å
F. Weak individually but sum of many is significant

24
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What are the properties of hydrophobic interactions?

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A. Hydrophobic molecules do not interact with water
B. Disrupt the water network maintained by hydrogen bonds (energetically unfavorable)
C. Wants to minimize this disruption through the hydrophobic effect (clustering of hydrophobic molecules to allow water molecules to be close to each other)
D. Exclusion effect
E. important for membranes and amphipathic molecules
F. Increases entropy of water molecules

25
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Why is water important in biochemistry?

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Water is always around in cells and acts as the solution that reactions happen in

26
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What are the chemical properties of water?

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a. polar
b. non-linear/bent (104.5 degrees)
c. hydrogen bond donor and acceptor
d. van der Waals radius of H= 1.2 Å
e. van der Waals radius of O= 1.4 Å
f. O—H covalent bond distance= 0.958 Å

27
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Water as solvent

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A. irregular network of hydrogen bonded molecules

b. rapidly fluctuating (H bonds are constantly breaking and forming)
c. polar and ionic molecules are able to dissolve in water

28
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Autoioniziation of water and equilibrium of water

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H2O ⇌ H+ and OH-
Keq= [H+] [OH-]/ [H2O]= (10^-7)^2/55.5
Kw=10^-14 M^2=[H+] [OH-]
Kw=Keq (55.5)

29
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pH

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pH= -log [H+]
pkw= pH + pOH=14
30
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What is pH determined by?

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The concentrations of acid and bases in solution (water)

31
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What is acid strength determined by?

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Ka (association constant)
HA + H2O ⇌ H+ + A- (conjugate acid and conjugate base)
K= [H+] [A-]/ [HA] [H2O]
Ka=K [H20]= [H+] [A-]/[HA]

32
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What are properties of buffers?

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a. Resist pH changes
b. Often weak acids with conjugate bases (create strong conjugate bases)
c. Critical for biological organisms

33
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What are the classes of biological polymers?

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  1. Proteins (largest and most diverse class, do most of the work in cells)
  2. Nucleic acids (DNA-genome storage/organization and RNA-diverse jobs)
  3. Polysaccharides (linear and branched)
  4. Lipids (chemically diverse)
34
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What are the features of biological polymers?

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  1. Directional (DNA is read 5’ to 3’)
  2. Informational
  3. Structures in three dimensions
  4. Held together by many weak molecular forces
35
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How are macromolecules built and deconstructured?

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  1. Condensation reactions form macromolecules

2. Molecules are hydrolyzed to break them apart

36
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What are properties of proteins?

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  1. Polymers of amino acids
  2. Formed by amide linkages
  3. Backbone/ main chain is hydrophillic
  4. Backbone is the same between different proteins
  5. Side chains determine folds and different chemical properties
  6. Directionality= amino (N) to carboxy (C) termini
37
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What are the properties of peptide bonds?

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  1. Rigid and planar
  2. Has resonance (some double bond character)
  3. No rotation around C—N bond due to resonance
38
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What are the components of amino acids monomers?

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  1. Alpha carbon
  2. Amine group
  3. Carboxyl group
  4. R group/side chain

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