Your working out confuses me... i dunno how a minus sign got in there... and H20 is 17 amu, NOT 18...CheekyPunk said:6 is B i think
Glocose-Glocose-Glocose-Glocose-Glocose
5 x 180 = 900
900 - (4x18) for the four water molecules formed from the condensation reaction.
= 828
???
yeh i was thinking about that ... but then i remembered from 'conquering chemistry' optimum temperature and pressure is 400 and 250 atmospheres ... so i thought 350 would be closer to 400 than 550.jfan30 said:shouldnt 15 be B, you need higher temps to overcome the activation energy
I dunno... when i was doing that question i visualise my textbook and i recall that the lower the temperature the better the yield..... (im not going to touch that conquering chemistry textbook ever again...! it was more like Chemistry conquering me.)jfan30 said:shouldnt 15 be B, you need higher temps to overcome the activation energy
Well if that's the case... one more mark gone... off my already 20 marks gone.... ... OMG... i hope i get at least 7 for MC... ****alsha89 said:The thing about question 6 is that when polymerisation occurs water is produced due to it being a xondensation reaction. So if 5 of the glucose monomers join then 4 water molecules will be produced also.
So if you calculate the weight of 5 glucose units = 5 * (C6H12O6) it gives you 900 but this is uncluding the water that breaks away so you must subtract the 4 water molecules = 4 * (H2O) which is 72.
So 900 - 72 = 828.
Make sense?