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1. What are the most common elements found in all the functional groups?
2. What functional groups are found in carbohydrates, lipid, proteins, Nucleic Acids?
3. What do you think is the role of functional groups?
4. Why do you think is the importance of functional group in our lives?
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1. What are the most common elements found in all the functional groups?
2. What functional groups are found in carbohydrates, lipid, proteins, Nucleic Acids?
3. What do you think is the role of functional groups?
4. Why do you think is the importance of functional group in our lives?
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1. The most common functional groups are carbonyls (C=O), alcohols (-OH), carboxylic acids (CO2H), esters (CO2R), and amines (NH2). It is important to be able to recognize the functional groups and the physical and chemical properties that they afford compounds.
2. Carbohydrate- alcohol and (aldehyde or ketone)
lipids- carboxylic acid with long hydrocarbon chains (usually above 16 C long)
nucleic acid- one phosphate group, one nitrogen containing base (pyrimidine or purine) and a sugar molecule, which in turn has alcohol and aldehyde/ketone group.
3.The Role of Functional Groups- In organic chemistry, a functional group is a specific group of atoms or bonds within a compound that is responsible for the characteristic chemical reactions of that compound. ... The atoms of a functional group are linked together and to the rest of the compound by covalent bonds.
4. Functional groups are important in chemistry because they are the portion of a molecule that is capable of characteristic reactions. They, therefore, determine the properties and chemistry of many organic compounds. ... A functional group gives an organic compound a property that is different than it would otherwise have.