Introduction
Name: glycine*; aminoethanoic acid; aminoacetic acid
* IUPAC
CAS Number: 56-40-6
Molar Mass: 75.0666 g
State of Matter: white solid
Mass Percent: C 32.000 %; H 6.7136 %; N 18.659 %; O 42.627 %
Isomers: nitroethane
Classification
• organic
Uses/Function
• "...first amino acid isolated from a protein." 1
Bonding
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Sources
(1) - Brownlee, Raymond B., Fuller, Robert W., and Whitsit, Jesse E. Elements of Chemistry; Allyn and Bacon: Boston, Massachusetts, 1959; p 322.