Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Carbohydrates
- Meaning ' hydrated carbon'
- Made up of carbon,
oxygen and hydrogen atoms.
- Mono-saccharides
- Mono- means 'one'
- Glucose
Fructose
Galactose
- There are 2 types of Glucose - Alpha and Beta
- They are isomers / the same composition but
different arrangement of structure (properties & functions may differ)
- The difference is that once it form
a ring in the A the C1 OH will point
down in the B in will be up.
- General formula
= (CH^2O)n
- n = 3-7
- Simplest of carbohydrates
- Sweet tasting,
soluble
substances.
- Disaccharides
- Di- means 'two'
- Sucrose
Maltose
Lactose
- Reducing sugars
- Using water we can 'undo' the
glycosidic bond and separate the
sugar into 2 monosaccharides
(hydrolisis)
- Sucrose = glucose & fructose
( 1,4 glycosidic bond)
- Lactose = Glucose & Galactose / 1,4 glycosidic bond
- Formed when 2 monosaccharides react e.g A Glucose +
A Glucose = Maltose
- The C1 OH & C4 HO react to
form H20 and a C-0-C bond
(glycosidic bond)
- Called 'condensation reaction'
- Polysaccharides
- Poly- means 'many'
- Cellulose
Starch
Glycogen
- Non-reducing sugars
- Starch 2 forms : Amylose / amylopectin
- Compact/ insoluble/ Has no osmotic effect / easily
broken down by enzymes when required.
- 1)Can be stored in smaller spaces
- 2)Can be stored in water cells without being used up
- 3)No net movement of water as a cause of
starch storage - no cells bursting
- 4)So plant can quickly respond to changes in glucose
levels
- Amylose - Simplest form of starch (30%)
- 1000's of A-glucose in a straight chain (very
tight coils) / insoluble- enzymes only 'nibble' at
its ends
- Amylopectin (70%)
- Every 20 or so = branch of a glucose molecule
bonded by a condensation reaction.
- More ends to 'nibble' from = quicker reaction than
amylose when there's a glucose deficit
- Glycogen: Animal version of Amylopectin
- Difference: branch every 6/7 glucose molecule
(instead of 20) very compact
- Energy store in animal livers
- Animals more active - need more energy in shorter
amount of time
- Cellulose: B-glucose molecules
linked by 1,4 glycosidic bonds
- Every other glucose is upside down
(alternating pattern)
- Rigid, straight and compact structure
- many of These end up forming
microfibrils of cellulose
- bonded together by
hydrogen bonds of adjacent
cellulose chains
- H-H bonds are weak but in the
masses are quite strong
- Starch test : Iodine test
- Add iodine dissolved in potassium iodide to sample.
- If it turns black-blue there's starch in it.
- If it stays orange there is no starch.
- Polymers formed from repeated condensation
reactions of monosaccharides
- Greek prefixes =
Mono/Di/Tri/Tetra/Penta/Hexa/Poly
- Triose= carb with 3 carbons
- E.g. Glyceraldehyde
- C3H6O3
- Tetrose = carb with 4 carbons
- Pentose = 5 carbons
- E.g. Ribose
- C5H11O5
- Hexose = 6 carbons
- E.g. Glucose
- C6H12O6
- Ketose group (molecule with
C=O bond in the middle of chain)
- Aldose= C=O bond at
the beggining
- Hexoses and pentoses are long
enough to form ring structures
- Glucose: 1) C=O bond breaks
2) C5 loses H and bonds with
O instead 3) Broken H bonds
with C1
- Benedict's Test
- Heat sample with benedict's reagent
- stays blue
- No reducing sugars present
- Heat new sample with HCL then neutralise with NaHCO3
- Heat with Benedict's reagent
- Goes green , yellow, orange, red or brown
- Non-reducing sugars present
- Stays blue
- No non-reducing sugars present
- goes green, yellow, orange, red or brown
- Reducing sugars present