Thursday, May 20, 2010

Chem Class - May 20, 2010

- Went over our homework
- Finished off functional groups today

Amides
 - General group:  Double-bonded oxygen to carbon and NH2
- Naming: Use carbon prefix and -amide suffix
- Building block of proteins
-Nylon/Kevlar/Penicillin/LSD












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Amines
- Contains nitrogen with carbon chains (primary, secondar and tertiary/ remember that nitrogen can have up to three bonds)
- Make up amino acids (amine and carboxyclic acid)
- Naming: Alkyl prefix with -amine ending
- Two ways of naming: Example- Another way of saying methylamine is aminomethane




Now that we've finished learning about each of the functional groups, here's a video on them:

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