McMurry, pp 195 - 198:
Problems 6.18, 19, 22-26, 28-32, 34, 35, 38, 39, 43-48, 51, 55
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.