Hi all.
I just want to make sure I'm not crazy here...
In orgo, if a side chain had 4 carbons total and one of those carbons was a methyl substituent, we would call it isopropyl if the methyl was on the second carbon and secpropyl if the methyl was on the first.
In biochemistry, all of the sudden we assign isopropyl to be leucine and secpropyl to be isoleucine. Does this not seem confusing and weird to anyone? I assume this is just something I should memorize and stop trying to make sense...
Leucine vs. Isoleucine (iso- vs. sec- naming weirdness)
I just want to make sure I'm not crazy here...
In orgo, if a side chain had 4 carbons total and one of those carbons was a methyl substituent, we would call it isopropyl if the methyl was on the second carbon and secpropyl if the methyl was on the first.
In biochemistry, all of the sudden we assign isopropyl to be leucine and secpropyl to be isoleucine. Does this not seem confusing and weird to anyone? I assume this is just something I should memorize and stop trying to make sense...
Leucine vs. Isoleucine (iso- vs. sec- naming weirdness)