Hydrolysis Essays

  • Hydrolysis of Oxoanions

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    Hydrolysis of Oxoanions Nonmetals in positive oxidation states do not exist in aqueous solution as cations but rather as hydroxides or oxides. These species often act as oxo acids which ionize to form oxoanions in solution. The general form of an oxoanion is MOxy-. Since these oxoanions are quite different in their properties, Z2/r ratios for nonmetal cations do not give accurate predictions of their chemical behavior. A different approach is needed to determine what these elements will do when they

  • The Rate of Hydrolysis of Sucrose

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    The Rate of Hydrolysis of Sucrose Hypothesis - The digestion of sucrose into glucose and fructose is carried out by the presence of the enzyme Sucrase. The activity of the enzyme will be greatest at its optimum temperature since at this temperature the enzyme's tertiary structure will be correct to allow the formation of the substrate-enzyme complex quickly and efficiently. This should be at 37°C (body temperature), which is the temperature of the ileum where Sucrase is secreted and naturally

  • Equilibrium Constant of an Ester Hydrolysis Reaction

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    The Equilibrium Constant of an Ester Hydrolysis Reaction Abstract The first step in determining the equilibrium constant of an ester hydrolysis reaction is to prepare five different reaction mixtures with the volume given in Table 1. the bottles have different mixtures of HCl, H2O, an unknown ester, and one bottle has alcohol. We will later determine the equilibrium constant for the reaction between the unknown ester and water to produce an unknown alcohol, and unknown acid.

  • Investigating the Effect of Enzyme Concentration on the Hydrolysis of Starch with Amylase

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    Investigating the Effect of Enzyme Concentration on the Hydrolysis of Starch with Amylase Aim: Investigate the effect of enzyme concentration on the rate of an enzyme-controlled reaction. Using amylase and starch as my example. Introduction: I am investigating the effect of the concentration of the enzyme, amylase on the time taken for the enzyme to fully breakdown the substrate, starch to a sugar solution. The varied variable will be the concentration and all other variables are going

  • Uses of Enzymes in Medicine and Industry

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    Uses of Enzymes in Medicine and Industry Enzymes are used widely across medicine and industry. Through this essay I will go through some examples of each case, and explain the complexities of these examples. Enzymes are biological catalysts that enable specific reactions to take place. Catalysts are widely used in industry, to increase the rate of a reaction, or allow the reaction to take place without resorting to high temperatures and pressures. One of the most important and widely

  • 1. What Is The Most Important Inorganic Compounds?

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    and is usually called dairy. Last, we have maltose, or malt sugar, which is formed by two molecules of glucose. 6. Differentiate between hydrolysis and dehydration synthesis. Dehydration synthesis is when enzymes take hydrogen and oxygen from two monosaccharides, making water, and causing the monosaccharides to stick together creating a disaccharide. Hydrolysis is when water is added to the disaccharide to make two monosaccharides again. 7. Name three polysaccharides, what they are made of, where

  • Sucrase Isomaltase Deficiecncy

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    Sucrase isomaltase deficiency is a disorder that affects normal carbohydrate digestion and therefore absorption, and leads to sucrose intolerance. Intolerance is described as clinical symptoms that are caused by sugar malabsorption (Scriver et al, 2001), in the case of sucrose intolerance this refers to the inability to digest and absorb sucrose, leading to several abdominal symptoms. Although sucrase isomaltase deficiency is not a fatal condition, it can cause suffers discomfort and therefore changes

  • Carbohydrates

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    categorized by the number of carbons present in the molecule. Glucose, the most common monosaccharide has six carbons per molecule, which is called a hexose. Carbohydrates also have a 2:1 hydrogen to oxygen ratio. This aids in the condensation and hydrolysis reactions. A condensation reaction occurs when two monosaccharides join by the removal of H2O. During condensation synthesis one monosaccharide losses an OH and the other losses a H. As a result the two monosaccharides bond by forming maltose a

  • Understanding About the Homogeneous Precipitation

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    directly into the solution. Conversely, make the ammonia forms slowly within the solution through the reaction of hydrolysis of urea: (H2N)2C=O + H2O arrow 2NH3 + CO2 Urea is a suitable compound in this reaction because it can decomposed easily to form ammonia.During the experiment, the solution was heated after urea has been added in, this is to increase the degree of hydrolysis of urea and therefore increase the formation of ammonia.

  • Macromolecules Lab Report

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    Macromolecules In the Macromolecules lab we tested for different thing such as reducing sugar, starch, and protein. In the reducing starch experiment we tested three different macromolecules. Each macromolecules was tested for sugar and how we indicated how much sugar was in each macromolecules was because the color would change. Some of the colors it would change to would be light blue (no sugar), light green (a trace of sugar), yellow (low sugar) Orange (moderate), red orange (high). Seven tubes

  • Cellulase Essay

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    release several cellobiose units from the cellulose chain without leaving the substrate. c) β- glucosidases or cellobiases (β- D glucoside glucohydrolases, EC 3.2.1.21)are very important components of the cellulase system in that they complete the hydrolysis to glucose of short-chain oligosaccharides and cellobiose which are released by the ot... ... middle of paper ... ...id, acetic acid, formic acid, H₂ and CO₂ as fermentation products which increases ecological, industrial and basic bioenergetics

  • Investigating the Hydrolysis of Halogenoalkanes

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    Investigating the Hydrolysis of Halogenoalkanes Aim: To investigate the hydrolysis of halogenoalkanes Equipment and Materials 1-Chlorobutane 1-Bromobutane 1-Iodobutane Silver Nitrate 250cm3 Beaker Pipette Ethanol (2cm3 per tube) Bunsen Burner Tripod Test Tubes Stop Watch Water Bath Control and Variables · Use a pipette and measuring cylinder to measure exactly 2cm3 of ethanol into each of the three test tubes. (Make sure when using the measuring cylinder

  • An Investigation into the Effect of Lipase Concentration on the Hydrolysis Of Fats

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    An Investigation into the Effect of Lipase Concentration on the Hydrolysis Of Fats Using the data loggers a recording of the pH was taken every 5 seconds and for each experiment the data loggers produced graphs of the change in pH. From each of these graphs a gradient was calculated which showed the rate of pH change per second. Firstly I calculated the gradients by choosing the steepest section of the graph and dividing the change in pH of this section by the time. However this method proved

  • Kinetics Of Ester Hydrolysis Catalyzed By Digestion

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    Kinetics of Ester Hydrolysis Catalyzed By Imidazole Experiment 3 Ban He Lab Partner: Colton Kincy TA: Ally Fairman September 19, 2014 Abstract: The purpose of the experiment was to study the kinetics of the hydrolysis of ester, p-nitrophenyl acetate (NPA) that is catalyzed by the buffer imidazole (Im). In terms of kinetics, specifically speaking, the rate of reaction as determined by the concentration, reaction orders, and rate constant with each species in a chemical reaction. By using the concentration

  • Biology: Hydrolysis of Lipids Using an Enzyme Called ‘Lipase’

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    Hydrolysis of Lipids Using an Enzyme Called ‘Lipase’ Research and Rationale Enzymes Enzymes are made up of proteins that are available in every cell of a living plant and animal [9] .Enzymes are very important for biochemical reactions. They act as catalysts and speed up biochemical reactions by using ‘an alternative reaction pathway of lower activation energy’ [5].Enzymes either starts a chemical reaction or allows it to occur faster [9]. Enzymes do not experience enduring changes therefore;

  • Chemical Weathering Essay

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    fragments of rocks through wind, water, and ice it changes the composition of the rock by carbonation, hydration, hydrolysis or oxidation. The three main type of chemical weathering is Hydrolysis, Oxidation, and Dissolution with the chemistry behind them. Chemical weathering also happen as a result of exposure to water and that is called hydrolysis.

  • Cellulose: The Abundant Renewable Biopolymer

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    Cellulose chains are composed of both crystalline and amorphous regions. Breaking of the amorphous portion of cellulose chain is carried out by acid hydrolysis to yield crystalline residue that is CNCs. Hydrolysis largely disintegrates the acetal linkage in amorphous part of cellulose chain while due to long exposure to acid crystalline part may also degrade (Bondeson et al., 2006). Depending on the origin of the cellulose, CNCs

  • Experiment For Hydrochloric Acid

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    observed, the observations were compared to that of the previous salts in order to help determine the overall pH. The unknown salt had very similar colors to the ZnCl2 for each indicator, so the range of pH was based around the same values. The hydrolysis of salts can be determined on the basis of the strength of the acid or base which forms it. If the salt is formed from a strong acid and a strong base, such as NaCl, the salt will form a neutral solution, since the anions of the acid and the cations

  • Trimyristin Synthesis Lab Report

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    experiment is based on being able to properly isolate/purify trimyristin from nutmeg and synthesize myristic acid from trimyristin. Liquid-solid extraction and recrystallization are the techniques used to isolate/purify the trimyristin from nutmeg. Base hydrolysis is the technique used to synthesize the myristic acid from trimyristin. Isolating trimyristin from nutmeg is considered natural product chemistry. Natural product chemistry involves isolating organic compounds from living things, such as plants

  • Microorganism Lab Report

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    Casein Hydrolysis: The skim milk agar plate did not have any clearing around the growth. This is a negative test result. 8. Catalase Production: When 3% hydrogen peroxide was added to an isolated colony, no bubbles formed. This is a negative test result. Discussion: