Organic Chemistry
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Author: Paula Y. Bruice
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Chapter 2.10, Problem 39P
A naturally occurring amino acid such as alanine has a group that is a
- a. If the pKa value of a carboxylic add such as acetic acid is about 5 (see Table 2.1 ), then why is the pKa value of the carboxylic acid group of alanine so much lower?
- b. Draw the structure of alanine in a solution at pH = 0.
- c. Draw the structure of alanine in a solution at physiological pH (pH 7.4).
- d. Draw the structure of alanine in a solution at pH = 12.
- e. Is there a pH at which alanine is uncharged (that is. neither group has a charge)?
- f. At what pH does alanine have no net charge (that is, the amount of negative charge is the same as the amount of positive charge)?
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