Biomolecules — Class 12 Maharashtra HSC Chemistry revision notes
A 12-page visual revision sheet for Biomolecules, written for Class 12 Maharashtra HSC Chemistry. Formulas, diagrams and the traps that cost marks, laid out to be read the night before rather than the term before. Free, and it opens inside CapCompass.
What this Biomolecules sheet covers
- Classification of carbohydrates
- Glucose: proof of its aldohexose structure
- Glucose from sucrose and from starch
- acid-catalysed hydrolysis of sucrose
- acid-catalysed hydrolysis of starch, 393 K, 2-3 atm
- Fischer projection and D/L configuration
- Assigning D or L from a Fischer projection
- Ring structure: hemiacetal, anomers, pyranose/furanose
- Reducing nature
- The three common disaccharides
- Sucrose
- Maltose
- Lactose
- Polysaccharides: starch, cellulose, glycogen
- Starch
- Cellulose
- Glycogen
- Amino acids: classification
- Zwitterion and pH-dependent forms
- Alanine's three forms across the pH scale
- Peptide bond and primary structure
- condensation of two amino acids, water lost, forms the peptide (amide) bond
- Protein secondary structure
- Alpha helix
- Beta pleated sheet
- Tertiary and quaternary structure
- Denaturation and enzymes
- Nucleotide components
- Polynucleotide backbone and the double helix
- phosphodiester link joins the 3'-OH of one nucleotide to the 5'-phosphate of the next
- DNA vs RNA
- DNA
- RNA
- Symbols
- Traps that cost marks
- Tricks that save time
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