Edman degradation is a chemical method developed by a biochemist, Pehr Edman in 1950. This process is used for labeling…
Biochemistry
Osmotic pressure is one of the colligative properties of the solution. If two solutions at different concentrations are separated by…
Anomeric carbon is the carbonyl carbon (aldehydic or ketonic functional group) of open chain carbohydrates which becomes the stereogenic center…
Mutarotation, discovered by Augustin Pierre Dubrunfaut in 1844, is the interconversion of alpha(α) and beta(β) anomeric forms of cyclic sugars….
Glucose, also known as dextrose is the most common simple sugar (monosaccharide). It has two isomeric structures, i.e. dextrose-(D) glucose…
Acetal and Hemiacetal are the main classes of carbohydrates i.e. organic compounds that differ in their functionality based on differences…
Aldoses and ketoses and monosaccharides (simple sugar molecules) with differences in the type of functional groups. Aldoses are monosaccharide molecules…
There are different types of chemical reactions. Among the most common are hydrolysis and dehydration. In addition to their experimental…
Chiral compounds are optically active molecules that are non-superimposable on their mirror images. Achiral compounds are optically inactive molecules that…
Enzymes are biological catalysts. Their activity is measured by the amount of substrate decomposed or the amount of product formed…