File talk:L-alanine-skeletal.svg

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Comment to the skeletal structure

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Its actually the amino acid Glycine you have drawn here, as the methyl group (bound to the alfa-carbon) is not shown at the end of the 'wedge' going out of the paper and therefore a hydrogen atom is the default! The massive stick model below the thin skeletal model is correct. --87.52.64.235 11:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, you're quite wrong. Methyl groups do not have to be explicitly shown as -CH3. Simply being the terminus of the wedge is enough to stand for a methyl group. See en:hexane for example.
Ben 12:26, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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