• 37 Posts
  • 295 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 12th, 2023

help-circle


  • The acetyl group (-COCH₃) is not acidic itself. The amino acid has both an acidic -COOH group and a basic primary amine (-NH₂) group, but in the compound the primary amine becomes a secondary amine (-NH-), who basicity will depend on surrounding atoms. (If you look at a structural diagram of the compound, the only hydrogen atom it can realistically lose to have acidity is on the -COOH.)





  • jxktopics@lemmy.worldJapanese macaque
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    23 days ago

    Crossposting an image doesn’t allow me to click on the image to enlarge it – instead it goes to the other post, in this case on another instance, so I can’t even post there.

    Maybe it would be better to repost the image itself, and include a Lemmy link to the other post in the text.



































Moderates