Combine these amino acids into a tripeptide. add or remove atoms and bonds as needed.

Combine these amino acids into a tripeptide. Add or remove atoms
and bonds as needed.

Combine these amino acids into a tripeptide. Add oYou can see I have changed a few things, I
just can not seem to get it.

Answer

General guidance

Concepts and reason
Tripeptide is formed by combining three amino acids via peptide bonds (CONH).by using the concept of valence of elements, removal or addition bonds can be done to get tripeptide structure.

Fundamentals

Amino acids are organic compounds which contain functional groups such as HN-(amine), -COOH(carboxyl) with (alkyl) groups present in theside chain.

General form of a tripeptide is;

AA-AA-AA

Note: when two amino acids combine peptide bond is formed.

Step-by-step

Step 1 of 3

Write valency of each atom present in the tripeptide

Element Valency
C
N

Valency of each atom is tabulated according to its electronic configuration.

Carbon:

So, valency of carbon is

Likewise;

Nitrogen:

Oxygen:

Hydrogen:

Step 2 of 3

Atoms which don’t satisfy valency are circled in red.

но
но
с-о-н
тът
-c
-o
—н
—I
Hс
сн,
Figure 1

From the valency of elements and structure in the question, we can observe that nitrogen should have avalency of 3(maximum of three bonds). Other elements in structures like C, O, and H has stable valency respectively. In the given structure, Nitrogen (circled in red) has 4 bonds surrounding it, making it positively charged.

Step 3 of 3

When one bond is removed from nitrogen (was circled in red fig 1), it gets satisfied with 3 neighbouring bonds.

C-
0-H
Z
-
C-
H
I-
CH2
CH
-
H₃C
CH₂

Structure of tripeptide will be

C-
0-H
Z
-
C-
H
I-
CH2
CH
-
H₃C
CH₂

Removal of bonds in Nitrogen (circled in red) will make nitrogen to have avalency of 3, nitrogen surrounding with three bonds.Removal of a single bond in nitrogen makes it have complete tripeptide structure.

Answer

Structure of tripeptide will be

C-
0-H
Z
-
C-
H
I-
CH2
CH
-
H₃C
CH₂

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