Tuesday, February 24, 2009

HL ONLY Food Chemistry Homework Problems

Due tomorrow (Feb. 25):
1- Sketch the chain structures of a monosaccharide that is an aldehyde and of a monosaccharide that is a ketone. Do these sugars actually exist in straight chain form in the aqueous solutions of the body?

2- Sketch the straight chain structures of the following monosaccharides:
a- glucose b- ribose c- ribulose d- galactose

3- What is a disaccharide? What monosaccharide units make up sucrose? What is the bond called that forms between disaccharides and what is a biproduct of this bond?



In addtion, answer the following (due Fri, Feb 27):
p. 1051

#100, #83, #85, #93, #94

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