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Exactly how is vitamin C different from ascorbic acid? Even if strictly true in a chemical sense, a good encyclopadia will take the average reader to the terminology most used in everyday speech (first)and then gradually inform him or her what all the other alternate words are. "Ascorbic acid" is definately not used as much as the term "vitamin C", right?
W. Whitney
The acid hydrolysis mechanism here uses single-headed arrows. This is wrong. A single-headed arrow implies movement of single electrons (a radical mechanism). Double headed arrows should be used here, implying movement of electron pairs. 24.181.29.106
Ascorbic acid and Vitamin C are not equivalent--Vitamin C is a form of ascorbic acid (I'm believing what I'm reading). Ascorbic acid is more general, so if anything, Vitamin C should redirect into ascorbic acid.
However, I think it's best if they're separate entries; ascorbic acid about the general class of ascorbic acid, Vitamin C about the L-idoslkwhater of ascorbic acid.
--TheCunctator
Exactly. isomer. The L isomer. Althought that isn't the only nomenclature that can be used to describe the isomeric differences. I'm not an expert on the biochemistry of ascorbic acid--it could be that the L form and the D form interconvert to form a racemate in vivo, but I wouldn't bet on it.
one can discuss ascorbic acid as a organic acid without any reference to it as a nutrient. That's why I originally put the stuff in about it's use as a reductant in chemical developer solutions-- Eastman Kodak uses tons of this stuff!
--JoeAnderson
Was it Haworth or Szent-Györgyi who got the Nobel for vitamin C? -- Marj Tiefert, Tuesday, June 11, 2002
both!
see:
http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1937/haworth-lecture.html
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1937/szent-gyorgyi-lecture.html
Malcolm Farmer, Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Could someone check my revision of the SMILES string? I didn't like how it neded with (CC) since I don't see an ethyl in the structure anywhere.
C1(O)=C(O)C(=O)OC1(C(O)CO)
gives the same structure as "ascorbin.gif" when I plug it in at http://www.daylight.com/daycgi/depict, although my head swims when I try to figure it out on paper. Milkfish 11:25 Apr 14, 2003 (UTC)
Fundermetaly... Vitamin C that we commonly know must have called L-ascorbic acid. That is ascorbic acid include ascorbic acid. -From my tiny knowledge- Moon Empress 2010.06.21 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.182.212.129 ( talk) 09:15, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Many (most?) bird species do not require vitamin C, so I changed "birds" to "some birds" on the article page. See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3145266/ Rex senegalus ( talk) 17:24, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
An anonymous user amended this from 176.12 to 176.13 Both weights give a similar number of hits on Google however since a large proportion of the 176.12 sites are Wikipedia mirror ones I've left the higher figure. Can anyone give an authorative answer? Lumos3 15:33, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I know nothing on this, but would like to see a section on how it's synthesized, and when that process was developed etc. Thanks!-- Joel 02:53, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
There is mention of GE bacteria being used. Are there any references to this please?
I'm curious since the molecule doesn't have any obvious "acid" component. Does the ring get hydrolyzed, leaving a carboxyl group? GCarty 08:57, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
--- While the acidic hydrogen is currently noted, I am not in agreement with how it is exemplified. Ascorbic acid is a vinylogous acid. That is it has a double bond added between the carbon and oxygen of a simple acid like acetic acid. I do not disagree with the arrows showing why the carbonyl oxygen pulls the electrons of the sp3-oxygen in and thus increasing the proton-electron pair distance, thus increasing its acidity. However, for simplicity, I would prefer a more conventional description in which the proton is removed to give a vinylogous acid with the negative charge distributed over both oxygen atoms in a traditional resonance arrow to separate the two resonance structures. Orgopete 12:42, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
This is not directly within the acid hydrogen discussion, but I am unfamiliar with contributing to a wiki, so please excuse my ignorance. The tautomerism discussion is really an extension of the vinylog acidity in that the negative charge of the anion can reside on three atoms. Therefore, protonation can logically also occur on any of the three, including on the carbon. However, that isomer is less stable than the common structure on the page. In the tautomerism discussion, it describes the formation of the 1,2-diketone being able to form, and I think that would be the more interesting isomer to show it formation as my above discussion shows, yet the 1,2-diketone is not illustrated. Since it is simply related to the given mechanism, I suggest the formation of the 1,2-diketone preferentially or additionally be shown. Orgopete 12:56, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there any empirical evidence for the existence of the C2- or C3- protonated tautomers? There is no reference in this section. Absent citation of some evidence, I think this discussion should be deleted. It has no practical relevance to understanding actual ascorbic acid or its properties. Rectifico ( talk) 18:11, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Polyparadigm- I do have infomation on the synthesis of Vitamin C in about 10 different methods, though im not really sure about copyright on the images i would need to explain it.
GCarty - The OH groups on the 'bottom' of the molecule are easily oxidised and the H+ are dissociated into solution, giving the acid, acidic preoperties.
(usually only 1 H+ dissociates forming dehydroascorbic acid, therefore its is only a weak acid) the remaining oxygen form a double bonds with the carbon (a carbonyl group like you mentioned)
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Eyehawk78 23:43, 1 March 2006 (UTC))
The acid is the OH on the very last of the string, but not any part or near the ring.
I read somewhere (don't remember where) that vitamin C decomposes with heat. Is this true? (I can't find anything on it on this article so if it's there point me to it.)
If so, does vitamin C continue to decompose while it's at a constant heated temperature (like, heated to 50 degrees C and then kept at 50 degrees C)? And what's the equation for its decomposition?
(I am studying chemistry at senior secondary school level (equivalent to 16-18 year olds).) Neonumbers 10:12, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
So ascorbic acid doesn't decompose, but instead gets oxidised by oxygen? (Ignore the "50 degrees" and replace 50 with some higher number if necessary.) Then (just so I can grasp everything):
Perhaps now is a good time to explain the context of my question: I am planning to investigate the effect of heat on the concentration of ascorbic acid in blackcurrant juice. Neonumbers 12:11, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
May be there is more (papers!)-- Stone 16:45, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Oppose This has already been discussed at length see Talk:Vitamin C#Ascorbic Acid vs Vitamin C. Lumos3 19:04, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
The vitamin C article is already plenty long, breaking it into a basic and industrial chemistry article and a separate, more biological one is fine. Also all vitamin C related material is not strictly ascorbic acid alone. Opposed.-- 69.178.41.55 06:44, 28 June 2006 (UTC) see prior discussion at Talk: Vitamin C late 2005.
Oppose for reasons stated above BrianZ (talk) 05:35, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Oppose, ditto. -- Hongooi 10:43, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Strong Oppose as above.-- TheNautilus 07:27, 1 February 2007 (UTC) ṆјĽÈŲˡΑþŞΞĹ[[Category:]]
I'd like to suggest cross-linking the two articles in the heading in a bit bolder manner. -- Anonymous 07:20 13 Apr 2010 (MDT)
Strong Oppose as above. Each is already listed as main article of the other. The only way to more strongly cross link would be a "differentiate" template right at the beginning of each article. S B H arris 02:59, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Articles such as Tartaric acid contain stereoisomer information rather than having it in separate articles. This would probably be the best idea here.
Why is there nothing in the article about L-ascorbic acid and D-ascorbic acid? I mean it is a big deal, two totally distinctly different seperate sides of Ascorbic Acid, and there's nothing about this in the article... Like how research shows the body disregards D-ascorbic acid (+) and only uses L-ascorbic acid (-). Or at least anything regarding the 2 different and seperate sides of ascorbic acid. Does anyone think something regarding this topic should be put in the article?
The image of ascorbic acid may show the wrong stereochemistry. Here's why:
The two images File:Erythorbic acid.png and File:L-Ascorbic_acid.svg are not identical, they just look similar until you pay close attention.
Ben (
talk) 17:05, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Specifically, the two figures have the same chirality at the chiral center in the ring, and the opposite at the other (exocyclic) chiral center. It is the chiral center farthest from the aldehyde, which in this case is the exocyclic center, that determines D and L. Since D and L isomers are complete mirror images, D-ascorbate would differ from L-ascorbate at both centers. Now take D-ascorbate and invert the ring chiral center (so that it is the same as in L-ascorbate) and you have D-erythorbate. It might be mentioned on the erythorbate page that this is the D stereoisomer. However apparently erythorbate is readily available only as the D isomer, and ascorbate as the L (at least from Sigma) presumably because they are derived from readily available natural materials.
Eaberry (
talk) 23:33, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Do you pronounce Ascorbic acid "uh-sore-bic" or "uh-score-bic"? In other words, is the "c" silent?? - 52.128.30.25 14:04, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Any idea what the reaction mechanism behind that one is? Evidently its not anything that goes anywhere near completion, but it made enough benzene to make news, apparently. Zaphraud ( talk) 00:22, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Youtube has several videos of making benzene from benzoic acid. But Cola is acid and making benzene requires alkali. Or Copper salts. Perrier and other water brands have been found to contain Benzene because its contaminated tap water (or polluted french wells.) Most likely it is the water they use. Rem soft drinks come from industrial bottling plants that use commercial water supplies. TaylorLeem ( talk) 02:15, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
If you've got those brown stains in your pool, ascorbic acid makes it go away like magic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Menshadow ( talk • contribs) 04:26, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Is it just me, or are the resonance diagrams in the acidity section missing an oxygen? Looks like only five are shown, and shouldn't there be six? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ehb ( talk • contribs) 15:21, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
anyone have UV vis spectra of VitC and degradation compounds (the brown, smelly things that form when solutions exsposed to air ? (I assume vitC by itself has no vis absorbance, since solutions are clear, and that UV may be generic, as there are no conjugated systems of note) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.236.121.54 ( talk) 14:58, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
I doctor told me that ascorbic acid or vitamin C is made by boiling corn syrup in suLphuric acid. If there is truth to this it needs to be explained in the article. 2602:306:C518:62C0:69B8:B150:2C54:4E9F ( talk) 14:02, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
The article statues that
"There exists a D-ascorbic acid"
without any explanation of what that means. I gave up chemistry several decades ago, and would (have) appreciate(d) a hint/reminder of what is going on.
Looking on THIS page, I think it is related to being a different isomers. So something as simple as....
"There also exists D-ascorbic acid, a stereoisomer of the XXX L-ascorbic acid."
where XXX should be something like "better known", "more common", "first discovered", "more important".... And, of course, Stereoisomer should be a link to the relevant page/article...
RobertII ( talk) 13:04, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Can some one find a citation for how free-radicals are "bad" for humans and mammals? The entire section does not include any references or citations. 50.46.151.230 ( talk) 06:46, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
it is a redirect to vitamin c article — Preceding unsigned comment added by Odarcan ( talk • contribs) 09:04, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
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The redirect D-ascorbic acid, which currently targets Vitamin C, has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 May 19#D-ascorbic acid. You are invited to contribute to that discussion as comments from those who understand the subject would be beneficial. Thryduulf ( talk) 12:57, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: move the page to Chemistry of ascorbic acid, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 16:36, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
Ascorbic acid (molecular aspects) → Molecular aspects of ascorbic acid – Improper use of disambiguation since the article is about the same topic as Ascorbic acid. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 16:41, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
Irwin Stone (1907–1984) was [...] the first to use ascorbic acid in the food processing industry as a preservative– it's actually the acid has the preservative effect, not the vitamin (if you get what I mean). No such user ( talk) 09:35, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
There are 2 articles here at English Wikipedia and two Wikidata items: Vitamin C (Wikidata) d:Q199678 and Chemistry of ascorbic acid d:Q193598.
But not every other Wikipedia have 2 distintc articles. The only one may be linked to one of the WikiData items or the the other one. So it's a very muddled situation. -- Mezze stagioni ( talk) 12:54, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
The structure in English wikipedia is not always best. There are no "problems intrinsic to how wikidata linking is implemented". You can create a redirect on the target wiki and link it from wikidata. This is much easier and less intrusive than splitting an article. Taylor 49 ( talk) 20:49, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
I was seeking the reduction potential of alkaline Vitamin C (most EMF in acid solution). I think I saw a chem text give it stronger reduction potential than Borohydride. TaylorLeem ( talk) 02:06, 3 June 2022 (UTC)