Substances organic

FIGURE 60 Formulas of organic substances. The molecular formula of an organic substance conveys information about the nature of the component elements (expressed by symbols) and the number of atoms of each element that make up a molecule of the substance if greater than one, the number of atoms of each element is indicated by a subscript. The structural formula provides a two-dimensional representation of the arrangement of the atoms in the molecule, showing how they are attached to one another and the type of bonds involved. 

Constituent Composition Function Occurrence (in iiving organisms) Relative amount in the human body (%) 

Carbohydrates Sugars, starch, ceiiuiose Structurai components of piant ceiis easiiy reieased energy storage in piants and animais Sugars in fruits starch and ceiiuiose in piants giycogen in animais beiow 1 

Lipids Fats and oiis Energy storage (reserve fuei) Vegetabie oiis, animai fats, choiesteroi, hormones 1-30 

Proteins Biopolymers composed of amino acid units Structurai component of animai ceiis, but aiso of vegetabies Blood, muscles, skin, hair, en mes about 17 

Retrograde solubility also occurs for organic substances. Examples are sulfaguani-dine and sparteine, a complicated natural product, both in water. Discontinuities in the solubility curve originating from polymorphic phase transitions are observed for enantiotropically related polymorphs. The transformation of one polymorph to the 

Sterile wedges of carrot are softened. Casein is hydrolyzed (peptonized). Collagen is degraded. 

---

We have considered the surface tension behavior of several types of systems, and now it is desirable to discuss in slightly more detail the very important case of aqueous mixtures. If the surface tensions of the separate pure liquids differ appreciably, as in the case of alcohol-water mixtures, then the addition of small amounts of the second component generally results in a marked decrease in surface tension from that of the pure water. The case of ethanol and water is shown in Fig. III-9c. As seen in Section III-5, this effect may be accounted for in terms of selective adsorption of the alcohol at the interface. Dilute aqueous solutions of organic substances can be treated with a semiempirical equation attributed to von Szyszkowski [89,90]... 

Liquid ammonia. This can be prepared by compressing ammonia gas. It has a boiling point of 240 K and is an excellent solvent for many inorganic and organic substances as well as for the alkali metals. Liquid ammonia is slightly ionised. ... 

Ammonia may be estimated by dissolving the gas in a known volume of standard acid and then back-titrating the excess acid. In a method widely used for the determination of basic nitrogen in organic substances (the Kjeldahl method), the nitrogenous material is converted into ammonium sulphate by heating with concentrated sulphuric acid. The ammonia is then driven off by the action of alkali and absorbed in standard acid. 

The Beilstein database [20] has more than 8.3 million (October, 2002) organic substance records from the Beilstein Handbook and abstracted from about 180 journals in organic chemistry from 1779 to the present. AH documents are critically evaluated and peer-reviewed. 

Heat a small portion of the following substances on an inverted porcelain or stainless steel crucible lid. At first, heat one side of the lid gently so that the heat travels along the lid to the organic substance later heat the lid more strongly. Note carefully in particular [a) the change in appearance, (b) whether readily inflammable, (r) any odour produced, (d) wliether a non-volatile residue is left. 

Although these nitrations proceed smoothly, attempted nitration of an unidentified substance should always be carried out with extreme care, e.g., by working in a fume-cupboard and pointing the boiling-tube away from the operator. Many organic substances e.g., alcohols and phenols) react with great violence with a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids. 

The constant K is termed the distribution or partition coefficient. As a very rough approximation the distribution coefficient may be assumed equal to the ratio of the solubilities in the two solvents. Organic compounds are usually relatively more soluble in organic solvents than in water, hence they may be extracted from aqueous solutions. If electrolytes, e.g., sodium chloride, are added to the aqueous solution, the solubility of the organic substance is lowered, i.e., it will be salted out this will assist the extraction of the organic compound. 

Many organic substances cannot be distilled satisfactorily under atmospheric pressure because they undergo partial or complete decom-... 

For example, Lange, f/aru26ooi of Chemistry. Ninth Edition (195C) (Handbook Publishers, Sandusky, Ohio) Seidell, Solubilities of Inorganic and Organic Substances, Third Edition (1941-1962) (Van Nostrand). 

Liquids or solutions of organic substances in organic solvents are usually dried by direct contact with a solid inorganic drying agent. The... 

In the isolation of organic compounds from aqueous solutions, use is frequently made of the fact that the solubility of many organic substances in water is considerably decreased by the presence of dissolved inorganic salts (sodium chloride, calcium chloride, ammonium sulphate, etc.). This is the so-called salting-out effect. A further advantage is that the solubility of partially miscible organic solvents, such as ether, is considerably less in the salt solution, thus reducing the loss of solvent in extractions. 

The exchange resins 6nd application in (i) the purification of water (cation-exchange resin to remove salts, followed by anion-exchange resin to remove free mineral acids and carbonic acid), (ii) removal of inorganic impurities from organic substances, (iii) in the partial separation of amino acids, and (iv) as catalysts in organic reactions (e.g., esterification. Section 111,102, and cyanoethylation. Section VI,22). 

Sublimation.—This is a valuable means for the purification of many organic substances and is admirably adapted for small scale work since losses are generally small. Sublimation may be carried out either at atmospheric pressure or under reduced pressure. The apparatus shown in Fig. XII, 2, 20 is simple and effective the sublimate is collected on the cold finger condenser. 

Organic substances on the skin. Wash freely with rectified spirit, then with soap and warm water. 

Metallic zinc was produced in the 13th century A.D. in India by reducing calamine with organic substances such as wool. The metal was rediscovered in Europe by Marggraf in 1746, who showed that it could be obtained by reducing calamine with charcoal. 

In biological systems molecular assemblies connected by non-covalent interactions are as common as biopolymers. Examples arc protein and DNA helices, enzyme-substrate and multienzyme complexes, bilayer lipid membranes (BLMs), and aggregates of biopolymers forming various aqueous gels, e.g, the eye lens. About 50% of the organic substances in humans are accounted for by the membrane structures of cells, which constitute the medium for the vast majority of biochemical reactions. Evidently organic synthesis should also develop tools to mimic the Structure and propertiesof biopolymer, biomembrane, and gel structures in aqueous media. 

Benzene parent compound of a large family of organic substances... 

Induced dipole/mduced dipole attractions are very weak forces individually but a typical organic substance can participate m so many of them that they are collectively the most important of all the contributors to mtermolecular attraction m the liquid state They are the only forces of attraction possible between nonpolar molecules such as alkanes... 

Combustion of alkanes is an example of oxidation-reduction Although It IS possible to calculate oxidation numbers of carbon m organic mole cules It IS more convenient to regard oxidation of an organic substance as an increase m its oxygen content or a decrease m its hydrogen content... 

NMR IR UVVIS and MS) were obtained using pure substances It is much more common however to encounter an organic substance either formed as the product of a chemical reaction or iso lated from natural sources as but one component of a mixture Just as the last half of the twentieth cen tury saw a revolution in the methods available for the identification of organic compounds so too has it seen remarkable advances in methods for their separation and purification... 

Classical methods for separation and purifica tion include fractional distillation of liquids and re crystallization of solids and these two methods are routinely included in the early portions of laboratory courses in organic chemistry Because they are capa ble of being adapted to work on a large scale frac tional distillation and recrystallization are the preferred methods for purifying organic substances in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries... 

The word essential as applied to naturally occurring organic substances can have two different meanings For example as used m the previous section with respect to fatty acids essential means necessary Lmoleic acid is an essential fatty acid it must be included m the diet for animals to grow properly because they lack the ability to biosyn thesize it directly... 

Chemists and biochemists And it convenient to divide the principal organic substances present m cells into four mam groups carbohydrates proteins nucleic acids and lipids Structural differences separate carbo hydrates from proteins and both of these are structurally distinct from nucleic acids Lipids on the other hand are characterized by a physical property their solubility m nonpolar solvents rather than by their structure In this chapter we have examined lipid molecules that share a common biosynthetic origin m that all their carbons are derived from acetic acid (acetate) The form m which acetate occurs m many of these processes is a thioester called acetyl coenzyme A... 

---