Unit 2 Flashcards
Main uses of esters
Perfumes
Solvents
Flavourings
Perfumes
Solvents
Flavourings
Main uses of esters
Appearance of esters
Colourless liquid
Smell of esters
Sweet/fruity or nail varnish
Sweet/fruity or nail varnish
Smell of esters
Solubility of esters in water
Insoluable
Why are esters able to dissolve many compounds that arent soluable in water
Esters are not very polar, water is polar
Esters as solvents
Volatile
Low bps
Useful when rapid evaporation of solvents is required
Volatile
Low bps
Useful when rapid evaporation of solvents is required
Esters as solvents
Ester used as the solvent in nail varnish
Ethyl Ethanoate
Ethyl ethanoate
Ester used as the solvent in nail varnish
When is an ester formed
Esterfication.
When an alcohol and carboxylic acid react
What forms by esterfication
When an alcohol and carboxylic acid react
An ester
Alcohol + carboxylic acid —>
Alcohol + carboxylic acid —> ester + water
—> ester + water
Alcohol + caboxylic acid
Where does the first part of an esters name come from
The alcohol
What part of an esters name comes from the alcohol
The first part
What part of an esters name comes from the carboxylic acid
Second part
Where does the second part of an esters mare come from
The carboxylic acid
- Anol
-yl
-yl
- Anol
-Ic acid
- Ate
- Ate
- Ic acid
Alcohol functional group
- OH
Hydroxyl functional group
- OH
What molecules have a hydroxyl group
Alcohols
Carboxylic acid functional group
Carboxyl functional group, COOH
What molecules have carboxyl functional group, COOH
Carboxylic acids
Carboxyl functional group
COOH
The formation of an ester is a _______ reaction
Reversible
Esterfication is a ________ reaction
Condensation
What is produced in the formation of an ester
Water
How can we tell esterfication is a condensation reaction
Water produced
Ester link
COO or OOC
COO or OOC
Ester link
To make an ester, what must be removed from the hydroxyl group of the alcohol
A hydrogen atom
To make an ester, what must a hydrogen atom be removed from
The hydroxyl group of the alcohol
What combine to make water in the formation of en ester
The hydrogen atom and -OH of the acid
Condensation reaction
Two molecules join and produce a larger molecule while eliminating a smaller one
Two molecules join and produce a larger molecule while eliminating a smaller one
Condensation reaction
Hydrolysis
A reaction in which a molecule is split up by the chemical action of water
A reaction in which a molecule is split up by the chemical action of water
Hydrolysis
what happens when an ester is hydrolysised
An alcohol and a carboxylique acid are formed
What happens to produce an alcohol and a carboxylique acid are formed
Hydrolysis
Opposite of condensation reaction
Hydrolysis
Hydrolysis
A water molecule is added and breaks up the structure
What type of reaction is condensation
Forward
What type of reaction is hydrolysis
Reverse
Fats and oils are used _________________ to provide us with _______
Fats and oils are used in our diets to provide us with energy
_______ are used in our diets to provide us with energy
Fats and oils
Heating fats results in
Oils
Cooling oils results in
Fats
Fats are examples of _____
Esters
Solubility of fats and oils
insoluable in water
3 sources of fats and oils
Animal fat
Vegetable oil
Marine oil
Examples of animal fat
Dripping, lard, tallow
Dripping, lard, tallow
Examples of animal fat
Olives, seeds such as peanut, corn
Examples of sources of vegetable oil
Examples of sources of marine oil
Cod liver, mackerel, sardine, herring
Cod liver, mackerel, sardine, herring
Examples of sources of marine oil
Examples of sources of vegetable oil
Olives, seeds such as peanut, corn
All fats and oils are naturally occurring what
Esters
When are fats and oils formed
Condensation reactions between the alcohol glycerol and fatty acids
Systematic name for glycerol
Propane- 1, 2, 3- Tirol
Propane- 1, 2, 3- Tirol
Glycerol
State of oils at room temp
Liquid
State of fats at room temp
Solid
Oils contain more ____________ than fats
Oils contain more C=C bonds than fats
____ contain more C=C bonds than _____
Oils contain more C=C bonds than fats
Saturation
Presence of C=C bonds
Presence of C=C bonds
Saturation
What does saturation explain in fats and oils
The difference in MPs
More C=C bonds
v
More C=C bonds
v
More unsaturated
More unsaturated
v
More C=C bonds
v
Lower melting points
What do C=C bonds do to long fatty acid chains and molecules shape
Distort the long fatty acid chains
Molecule cannot pack closely together
What distorts the long fatty acid chains
Molecule cannot pack closely together
C=C bonds
What means that fat molecules can pack closely together
Less distortions as lack of C=C bonds
Result of less distortions as lack of C=C bonds
Increased BPs
Results of saturation on fat molecules
Pack closely together
Why do fats have increased BPs
They can pack closely together
Comparison of LDFs in fats and oils
The poorer packing in oils makes LDFs between the oil molecules weaker than fat molecules
How to increase the MP of an oil
Addition reaction between the double bond and hydrogen can take place
What does an addition reaction between the double bond and hydrogen can take place mean for the oil
Reduces unsaturation and causes hardening
Testing for unsaturatation
Bromine solution will quickly discolour when it reacts work unsaturated compounds
What will quickly discolour when it reacts work unsaturated compounds
Bromine solution
Fats and oils are esters, formed from a condensation reactions between the alcohol _______and different long chain _______ _______ (______ _____)
Fats and oils are esters, formed from a condensation reactions between the alcohol glycerol and different long chain carboxylic acids (fatty acids)
______________ are esters, formed from a condensation reactions between the alcohol glycerol and different long chain carboxylic acids (fatty acids)
Fats and oils are esters, formed from a condensation reactions between the alcohol glycerol and different long chain carboxylic acids (fatty acids)
Parent alcohol for au fats foils
Glycerol, propone-1,2,3 - triol
How many hydroxyl functional groups does glycerol have
3
What does glycerol have 3 of
Hydroxyl functional groups
Fatty acids
Long chain carboxylic acids ranging from C4 to C28
Eg stearic acid
Long chain carboxylic acids ranging from C4 to C28
Eg stearic acid
Fatty acids
The fatty acid molecules can be what
Saturated or unsaturated
Fats and ails formed from glycerol are known as what
Triglycerides or triesters
Triglycerides or triesters
Fats and oils
Each hydroxyl group can combine chemically with ________________
Each hydroxyl group can combine chemically with one carboxylicacid
3 carboxylie acids can react with what
A triester or triglyceride
How many acids can react with one triester
3
Hydrolysis of a fat/oil produces….
- 3 fatty acid molecules
- I glycerol molecule
What produces….
- 3 fatty acid molecules
- I glycerol molecule
Hydrolysis of fat
Effect of more carbon double bonds on fatty acids
More bent shape
Effect of more unsaturation on fatty acids
More bent shape
General formula for saturated carboxylic acids
CnH2n+1COOH
CnH2n+1COOH
General formula of saturated carboxylic acids
More carbon double bonds means ____ hydrogens
Less
Ester link
COO or OOC
COO or OOC
Ester link
Ester link also known as
Carboxylate
In glycerides, the fatty acid groups can be what 3 things
All different
Two the same
All the same
What do all proteins contain
Carbon hydrogen oxygen nitrogen
Some also contain sulfur
How do plants obtain C H and O
From carbon dioxide and water
How do animals obtain proteins
By eating plants or other animals
What happens to proteins we eat
They are converted into desireable proteins
What are proteins molecularly
Polymers
What are amino acids molecularly
Monomers
What do amino acids build
Proteins
What make up proteins
Amino acids
Amino acids functional groups
Amine group
Carboxyl group
Amine group
-NH2
-NH2
Amine group
What parts of the amino acids link to form peptide links
Co of carboxyl group
And
NH of amine group
What type of reaction is protein synthesis
Condensation
What things join to form water in protein synthesis
OH of Carboxyl group
H of amine group
What join together amino acids
Peptide/amide links
Peptide/amide link
- CONH
- CONH
Peptide/amide link
Digestion
What happens to the foods we have eaten that provides the chemical which our bodies require
What happens to the foods we have eaten that provides the chemical which our bodies require
Digestion
Protein digestion
Hydrolysis of protein molecule in our food to form amino acids
What are too large to pass through the walls of your gut
Protein molecules
What can’t pass through the walls of your gut
Proteins as they are too large
What are small enough to pass through the gut wall
Amino acids
Essential amino acids
There are 10 amino schools that humans cannot construct
They are essential in the diet
There are 10 amino schools that humans cannot construct
They are essential in the diet
Essential amino acids
What controls protein digestion
Enzymes
What bond breaks when protein is hydrolysised
C-N
What bonds to the C of the peptide link in protein hydrolysis
it becomes COOH
What bonds to the N of the peptide link in protein hydrolysis
Two Hs
Fibrous
Long fibre like structures
What bonds in the peptide link are polar
C = O
N -H
What does hydrogen bonding occur between in proteins
N-H of one peptide link and the O of the C=O in another peptide link
In proteins, What structure forms when H bonding occurs between amino groups in one chain and carbonyl group in another
Sheet structure
In proteins, what structure forms when H bonding occurs in the same chain
Helix structure
Carbonyl group
C=O
C=O
Carbonyl group
What are fibrous proteins
Tough and insoluable
What are globular proteins involved in
The regulation of life processes
Globular protein structure
Spiral chains folded into spherical shapes and soluable
Alkanols
Alkanes with a hydroxyl group
Alkanes with a hydroxyl group
Alkanols
Alkane general formula
CnH2n+2
CnH2n+2
Alkane general formula
Alkanol general formula
CanH2n+1OH
CanH2n+1OH
Alkanol general formula
First member of alcohol family to have isomers
Propanol
Isomer
Molecules with the same molecular formula but different structural formula
Molecules with the same molecular formula but different structural formula
Isomer
Primary alcohol
Only one carbon attached to the hydroxyl carbon
Only one carbon attached to the hydroxyl carbon
Primary alcohol
Secondary alcohol
Two carbons attached to the hydroxyl carbon
Two carbons attached to the hydroxyl carbon
Secondary alcohol
Tertiary alcohol
Three carbon as attached to the hydroxyl carbon
Position of hydroxyl in primary alcohol
Always at the end of a chain
What alcohols always have the hydroxyl at the end of a chain
Primary
Position of hydroxyl in secondary alcohol
Always at a non branching position on the chain
What alcohol have the hydroxyl always at a non branching position
Secondary
Position of hydroxyl in tertiary alcohol
Always at the branching position in the chain
What alcohols always have the hydroxyl at a branching position
Tertiary