Class 12 Chemistry - Chapter Biomolecules NCERT Solutions | When RNA is hydrolysed, there is no rela

What happens when D-glucose is treated with the following reagents? (i)HI (ii)Bromine water (iii)HNO₃

How do you explain the absence of aldehyde group in the pentaacetate of D-glucose?

Glucose or sucrose are soluble in water but cyclohexane or benzene (simple six membered ring compounds) are insoluble in water. Explain.

The melting points and solubility in water of amino acids are generally higher than that of the corresponding halo acids. Explain.

Define the following as related to proteins 

(i) Peptide linkage  (ii) Primary structure  (iii) Denaturation.

What products would be formed when a nucleotide from DNA containing thymine is hydrolysed?

The two strands in DNA are not identical but are complementary. Explain.

Enumerate the reactions of D-glucose which cannot be explained by its open chain structure.

What are nucleic acids? Mention their two important functions.

Where does the water present in the egg go after boiling the egg?

For the reaction R → P, the concentration of a reactant changes from 0.03 M to 0.02 M in 25 minutes. Calculate the average rate of reaction using units of time both in minutes and seconds.

Write the formulas for the following coordination compounds:

(i) Tetraamminediaquacobalt (III) chloride

(ii) Potassium tetracyanonickelate(II)

(iii) Tris(ethane-1,2-diamine) chromium(III) chloride

(iv) Amminebromidochloridonitrito-N-platinate(II)

(v) Dichloridobis(ethane-1,2-diamine)platinum(IV) nitrate

(vi) Iron(III) hexacyanoferrate(II)

(i) Write structures of different isomeric amines corresponding to the molecular formula, C4H11N

(ii) Write IUPAC names of all the isomers.

(iii) What type of isomerism is exhibited by different pairs of amines?

Why are solids rigid?

Write any two characteristics of Chemisorption.

Write the structures of the following compounds.

(i) α-Methoxypropionaldehyde

(ii) 3-Hydroxybutanal

(iii) 2-Hydroxycyclopentane carbaldehyde

(iv) 4-Oxopentanal

(v) Di-sec-butyl ketone

(vi) 4-Fluoroacetophenone

Which of the ores mentioned in Table 6.1 can be concentrated by magnetic separation method?

Why are pentahalides more covalent than trihalides?

Silver atom has completely filled d orbitals (4d10) in its ground state. How can you say that it is a transition element?

Write structures of the following compounds:

(i) 2-Chloro-3-methylpentane

(ii) 1-Chloro-4-ethylcyclohexane

(iii) 4-tert. Butyl-3-iodoheptane

(iv) 1,4-Dibromobut-2-ene

(v) 1-Bromo-4-sec. butyl-2-methylbenzene

Why is dioxygen a gas but sulphur a solid?

Classify the following amines as primary, secondary or tertiary:

(i)

(ii)

(iii) (C₂H₅)₂CHNH₂

(iv) (C₂H₅)₂NH

Suggest the most important type of intermolecular attractive interaction in the following pairs.

(i) n-hexane and n-octane

(ii) I₂ and CCl₄

(iii) NaClO₄ and water

(iv) methanol and acetone

(v) acetonitrile (CH₃CN) and acetone (C₃H₆O).

Time required to decompose SO₂Cl₂to half of its initial amount is 60 minutes. If the decomposition is a first order reaction, calculate the rate constant of the reaction.

What is lanthanoid contraction? What are the consequences of lanthanoid contraction?

A 5% solution (by mass) of cane sugar in water has freezing point of 271 K. Calculate the freezing point of 5% glucose in water if freezing point of pure water is 273.15 K.

Bond angle in PH⁺₄ is higher than that in PH₃. Why?

Give the structures and IUPAC names of monohydric phenols of molecular formula, C₇H₈O.

Predict conditions under which Al might be expected to reduce MgO.

Write the reactions of F₂ and Cl₂ with water.