Green Chemistry and the Ten Commandments

Chap. 5. The Wonderful World of Carbon: Organic Chemistry and Biochemicals 125 Table 5.1. Some Typical Polymers a ...

126 Green Chemistry, 2nd ed C H H H H H H H H H H H H C C C C C C C O O O O C C C C C H H H H H H H H H H H C H H C ...

Chap. 5. The Wonderful World of Carbon: Organic Chemistry and Biochemicals 127 Many biochemicals are polymers, which may consist ...

128 Green Chemistry, 2nd ed This is obviously an extremely important reaction because it is the one by which inorga ...

Chap. 5. The Wonderful World of Carbon: Organic Chemistry and Biochemicals 129 several levels of protein structure. The first of ...

130 Green Chemistry, 2nd ed as stearic acid, CH 3 (CH 2 ) 16 CO 2 H. The glycerol molecule has three -OH groups to ...

Chap. 5. The Wonderful World of Carbon: Organic Chemistry and Biochemicals 131 chemical messengers that convey information from ...

132 Green Chemistry, 2nd ed ββ-D-Ribo- furanose 2-Deoxy- ββ-D- ribofuranose P O- O O C C C C C N C C C N O O H CH 3 ...

Chap. 5. The Wonderful World of Carbon: Organic Chemistry and Biochemicals 133 What is the difference between ethane and the et ...

134 Green Chemistry, 2nd ed What are the basic building blocks of proteins, and how do they determine the primary ...

6. ENERGY RELATIONSHIPS 6.1. ENERGY Energy is the capacity to do work or to transfer heat (the form of energy that flow ...

is equal to 1 calorie of energy (1 cal = 4.184 J), the unit of energy formerly used in scientific work. A joule is a small unit, ...

above Earth’s atmosphere receives energy at a rate of 1,340 watts. A watt is a measure of power, that is, energy per unit time. ...

41 H → 2 He + 2+1e + energy (6.2.1) (^40) Electromagnetic Radiation The space between the sun and Earth is mostly just that — em ...

electromagnetic radiation having λ between 400 and 700 nanometers (nm). A significant amount of the incoming energy is in the in ...

C 6 H 12 O 6 + 6O 2 → 6CO 2 + 6H 2 O + energy (6.2.5) is the process that we and most other organisms use to obtain energy. So p ...

2 mol H 2 O × 2 mol O-H × 459 kJ = 1836 kJ mol H 2 O mol O-H Total bond energy in products = 1598 kJ + 1836 kJ = 3434 kJ O C O O ...

6.4. Energy Sources Two centuries ago, before the steam engine became commonplace, virtually all the energy used in the world wa ...

used. There are two major problems with this tremendous reliance on fossil fuels. One of these problems is that fossil fuel sour ...

and will have to develop alternatives. It will not be an easy transition. Several of the possible alternatives are discussed lat ...