Organic Chemistry I

 

Professor Carl C. Wamser

Chapter 7 Homework

Carey, pages 332 -341 :
Problems 7.26 - 7.50, Spartan 7.1, 7.4, 7.5, 7.9


1. Write complete names for each of the following compounds, including designation of stereochemistry:


2. All of the naturally occuring amino acids are called L because they have a stereochemistry that was historically correlated with one stereoisomer of glyceraldehyde, shown below.

L-Glyceraldehyde and the natural amino acids all have the S absolute configuration. The two exceptions are glycine and cysteine. Look up their 3-dimensional structures and explain why they are different.