carbon skeleton

  • aldehydes

    TITLE: aldehyde: Addition of carbon nucleophiles
    SECTION: Addition of carbon nucleophiles
  • isoprenoids

    TITLE: isoprenoid: Structural features of isoprenoids
    SECTION: Structural features of isoprenoids
    The term carbon skeleton is used to describe the pattern in which the carbon atoms are bonded together in a molecule, disregarding atoms of other elements and differences between single and multiple bonds. Most chemical reactions of organic compounds do not break bonds between carbon atoms and therefore leave the carbon skeleton unchanged. In many isoprenoids, rings of three, four, or...
  • oxidation of amino acids

    TITLE: metabolism: Oxidation of the carbon skeleton
    SECTION: Oxidation of the carbon skeleton
    As indicated in Figure 2, the carbon skeletons of amino acids (i.e., the portion of the molecule remaining after the removal of nitrogen) are fragmented to form only a few end products; all of them are intermediates of either glycolysis or the TCA cycle. The number and complexity of the catabolic steps by which each amino acid arrives at its catabolic end point reflects the chemical...