RT Book, Section A1 Kennelly, Peter J. A1 Rodwell, Victor W. A2 Rodwell, Victor W. A2 Bender, David A. A2 Botham, Kathleen M. A2 Kennelly, Peter J. A2 Weil, P. Anthony SR Print(0) ID 1160188532 T1 Water & pH T2 Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry, 31e YR 2018 FD 2018 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781259837937 LK accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1160188532 RD 2023/01/27 AB OBJECTIVESAfter studying this chapter, you should be able to:Describe the properties of water that account for its surface tension, viscosity, liquid state at ambient temperature, and solvent power.Use structural formulas to represent several organic compounds that can serve as hydrogen bond donors or acceptors.Explain the role played by entropy in the orientation, in an aqueous environment, of the polar and nonpolar regions of macromolecules.Indicate the quantitative contributions of salt bridges, hydrophobic interactions, and van der Waals forces to the stability of macromolecules.Explain the relationship of pH to acidity, alkalinity, and the quantitative determinants that characterize weak and strong acids.Calculate the shift in pH that accompanies the addition of a given quantity of acid or base to the pH of a buffered solution.Describe what buffers do, how they do it, and the conditions under which a buffer is most effective under physiologic or other conditions.Illustrate how the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation can be used to calculate the net charge on a polyelectrolyte at a given pH.