Problems

 

1. What aldehyde is formed when phenylalanine is treated with ninhydrin?
   
   
2. Explain the order of elution with an aqueous solution of pH 6 of the following pair of amino acid on a column packed with the resin shown in Scheme 9.

Lysine and glutamate

3. Write the possible stereoisomers for isoleucine.

 

Text Book

P. Y. Bruce and K J R. Prasad, Essential Organic Chemistry , Pearson Education, New Delhi, 2008.