Chemistry A-Level
Bifunctional nature of amino acids
What Bifunctional nature of amino acids means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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An amino acid carries both an amine group and a carboxylic acid group on the same molecule, so it shows the reactions of each functional group and some combined behaviour.
Topics that use Bifunctional nature of amino acids
- Amino acids, amides and chirality (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Acid–base reaction of the COOH group
- Amide and ester formation
- Brønsted–Lowry base
- Carboxylate salt formation
- chirality
- Counting groups bonded to nitrogen
- Delocalisation and reduced basicity of the amide nitrogen
- enantiomers
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