This amino acid can be made from bromoethanoic acid using the Gabriel synthesis, and unusually for an amino acid, when dissolved in water the solution is not optically active.
This amino acid can be made from bromoethanoic acid using the Gabriel synthesis, and unusually for an amino acid, when dissolved in water the solution is not optically active. Found in high amounts in gelatin and silk fibroin, it is synthesized in the body from serine and threonine. Having for its R component a single hydrogen atom, FTP, what is this simplest amino acid, symbolized G?
This amino acid can be made from bromoethanoic acid using the Gabriel synthesis, and unusually for an amino acid, when dissolved in water the solution is not optically active.
glycine (or aminoacetic acid)