Talk:Malic acid
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Hi JeLuf, I saw your image for Malic acid, it is great except you have 3 bonds that are wrong, going from left to right on the structure, the second carbon has two vertical lines (one above, one below), there should be an 'H' on the end of these lines to denote hydrogen. A line without a symbol is implicitly stating it connects a Carbon atom- which is incorrect. Also the vertical bond on the 3rd backbone carbon also needs an 'H'. I hope this message is clear, it would be really easy on a white board :)
Thanks
Hello,
I just checked with several of my chemistry books, and all of them use a line without a symbol for 'H', not for 'CH3'. Those are German books. Is this convention different between countries? -- JeLuF 17:34 11 Jun 2003 (UTC)
JeLuF - 2 things: 1) at least here in the US, the convention in a drawn chemical strucure is that a line with no symbol denotes a bond to Hydrogen atom - you had it right. 2) Does anybody out there have a Ka value for Malic Acid? You can e-mail it to tristanj@morebeer.com, I'd be much appreciative. Tristan