Fundamentals of Biochemistry Third Edition Donald Voet • Judith G. Voet • Charlotte W. Pratt Chapter 2 Water Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Chapter 2 Opener

Figure 2-1a

Hydrogen bonding in water

Quasi-crystalline structure of ice

Figure 2-4

A little misleading – these are all ranges

Figure 2-5

Ion-dipole interaction

Hydrogen bonding examples

“Like dissolves like”

Solubilizing nonpolar solutes with water Figure 2-8

Fatty acids: mostly non-polar with a polar or ionic end

Fatty acids are components of phospholipids

moiety = part black = nonpolar

Osmotic pressure

Figure 2-14

Figure 2-15

i.e., Kwater = 1 × 10–14

Table 2-3

Table 2-4

Figure 2-17

Figure 2-18