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Chapter 4—Carbon and the
Molecular Diversity of Life
Carbon Skeletons and their
Attachments
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I. The Importance of Carbon
• Living Organisms: • 70-95% Water
• 5-30% Carbon-based compounds
• Carbon accounts for the large diversity found in
biological molecules • Carbon backbones attached to H, O, N, S, & P
• Organic Chemistry • Branch of chemistry that studies carbon compounds
– small → large molecules
» i.e. CH4 or CO2 vs. proteins with 1,000s of atoms
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Simple Organic Molecules
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Valences of Organic Molecules
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Carbon = Most Versatile Building
Block
Carbon has 4 valence electrons (1/2 full)
fills its valence shell by sharing e- with other atoms
forming 4 covalent bonds
Carbon = intersection or branching point for
molecules = lots of versatility of structures
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Variations in Carbon Skeletons
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Diversity of Carbon Skeletons =
Diversity of Organic Molecules
• Carbon chains form the skeletons of organic molecules
• Vary in: – Length
– Arrangement (i.e. straight, branched, rings)
– Location of single & double bonds
– Other elements bonded to the skeleton (functional groups)
• Hydrocarbons—
– Consist of only C & H – Example: petroleum (fossil fuel)
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Hydrocarbons in Living Organisms
Hydrocarbons
are:
Nonpolar
Hydrophobic
Store large
amounts of
energy
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Isomers = Diversity of Organic
Molecules
Isomers—
Same molecular formula
Different structure or
arrangement
Different properties
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3 Types of Isomers
• Structural Isomers— • Covalent arrangements of atoms differ (single &
double bonds)
• Geometric Isomers— • Same covalent bonds, different arrangement of
atoms
• Enantiomers— • Molecules are mirror images of each other
(―right or left handed‖)
• Usually one is biologically ‗active‘ and the other is ‗inactive‘
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Enantiomers
Organisms are
sensitive to
small changes
in architecture
Emergent
property—
Change
arrangement
of atoms →
change
function of
molecule
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II. Functional Groups
• Specific arrangement of atoms
• Attached to carbon skeleton
• Usually involved in chemical reactions
• All are hydrophilic, increase solubility
• Each type exhibits characteristic behavior
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Sexuality has a biological basis
Sex and sexuality is based on carbon chemistry
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Variations in functional
groups along carbon
skeletons = major
source of molecular
diversity
Organic compounds in
cells usually contain 2
or more functional
groups
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