Brown, pp 152 - 157:
Problems 5.9 - 10, 13 - 18, 20 - 32, 39 - 41, 44 - 45, 47 - 50
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.
