Identify all the functional groups present in the following:
(a)

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Identify all the functional groups present in the following:

(a) Chemical structure of aspartame, an artificial sweetener, with labeled functional groups.

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Welcome back everyone. What functional groups are present in the chemical structure shown below. We're given a, we're given a line angle structure of a specific compound. For simplicity, we can just add those implicit carbon atoms. As we can see, we have a five member grain and there are four carbon atoms. And of course, because every carbon atom must have four bonds, we're adding the missing hydrogens. So now what we notice first of all is that there is oxygen bonded to two alky chains. We can treat that ring as simply two alky chains from the left and from the right. So we can essentially state that the first part can be represented by R one bonded to oxygen, which is then bonded to R two. And we have to recognize that this is the general form of an ether, two saturated carbons bonded to oxygen. R one or two. That'd be an ether. Now, what else? Well, we're going to skip, see each two units and we can immediately see that there is a double bond within the ring. What do we know about double bonds? Well, whenever we have a double bond, it represents an alkene, a class of hydrocarbons. So we can also state that there's an L kin present in the given structure and that would be it. We have our answers. The given structure contains ether and L kin functional groups. Thank you for watching.

Identify all the functional groups present in the following:
(a)

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Identify all the functional groups present in the following:
(a)