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Complex carbohydrates, like starch and cellulose, are natural polymers where simple sugar molecules are the monomers. Both starch and cellulose consist of long chains of what simple sugar molecule?


A 6.0 grams of NaOH is dissolved in distilled water to make 1.60 - liters of solution. What is the pH of the NaOH solution?


How do you prepare a 50:50 buffer solution?
Draw Lewis structures for the following substances. Use distinct, correctly placed dots for the electrons. Mark all atoms which are not neutral with charges of the proper sign.

b. C₂H₂

b. cyclopropane L. ethylene oxide

e. benzene

g. methylamine

d. methyl bromide

a. propane

e. methanol

Provide a likely simple electronic structure for each of the following, assuming them to be completely covalent. Assume that every atom has a complete octet (except hydrogen, of course), and that two atoms may share more than one pair of electrons.

(a) COCl2

(b) C2H2

(c) CH2O


A 30.14-g stainless steel ball bearing at 117.82 degrees C is place in a constant pressure calorimeter containing 120.0 mL of water at 18.44 degrees C. If the specific heat of the ball bearing is 0.474 J/g x C, calculate the final temperature of the water. Assume the calorimeter to have negligible heat capacity.


4-Isopropyloctane



Given below are three organic compounds with the same number of carbon atoms.

4-methylpentanol, 3-methylpentanal and hex-3-ene

Arrange the above compounds in the ascending order of boiling points and explain your answer. 


1. Provide a likely simple electronic structure for each of the following, assuming them to be completely covalent. Assume that every atom has a complete octet (except hydrogen, of course), and that two atoms may share more than one pair of electrons.

a. COCI

C CHO

2. Draw Lewis structures for the following substances. Use distinct, correctly placed dots for the electrons. Mark all atoms which are not neutral with charges of the proper sign.

b. C₂H₂

b. cyclopropane L. ethylene oxide

e. benzene

g. methylamine

d. methyl bromide

a. propane e. methanol

3. How many isomers of formula CH₂Cl, would be expected from each of the following structures for methane? (a) Carbon at the center of a rectangle; (b) Carbon at the center of a square: (c) carbon at the apex of a square base pyramid: (d) carbon in the center of a tetrahedron.

4. Write an expanded structural formula with a line for each bond for ea eh of the substances represented below by a condensed formula:

(a) CH₂CH(CH₂)₂ (b) CH,CONHCH,



What is wrong with the following structures:a. H3C-O b. H3C≡CH2-O-H c. H=CH2-O=H