TY - JOURS T1 - Zur Begriffsbildung für die funktionellen Gruppen organischer Stoffe aus biologischen Prozessen WUNDERLIN, UlLRICH JAS - Jahr für Goethe. JF - Jahrbuch für Goetheanismus PY - 2004 VL - 2004 SP - 147 EP - 186 DO - 10.18756/jfg.2004.147 SN - Print :1866-4830 Online : 2750-2341 LA - de N2 - N1 - Concerning a conception of functional groups based on biological processesThe functional groups of classical organic chemistry prove highly suited for classification purposes when their various process potentials are taken from the living world Such a classification harbours information which accords better with the facts we need only extend the usual way of understanding them We have attempted to provide a new approach to functional groups through application of key concepts in chemistry and in so doing have demonstrated a surprisingly clear ordering We have pursued two tendeneiesa Increasing alkalinity amd acidity Here we can assume substances that are primarily sahlike in character One pathway to acids carries us through aldehydes and ketones to carboxylic acids while another more enhanced acidic pathway is identified in the mercaptans and sulphonic acids The path to bases shows aromatics that are alkaline in nature then the alcohols the amines the heterocyclics aromatic rings with attached reduced nitrogen and finally the alkaloidsb Homeopolar and heteropolar bands The homeopolar bonds show a tendency towards fixation to persistencc in the formed substance They become pure substance largely removed from the ongoing process Heteropolar bonds on the other hand are participants in the process however they tend tocoagulatetoo little in the material Between these two poles lie living substances which mostly possess a heteropolar component or get one mediated by phosphoric acid or a thioether without becoming a mineral salt as an end product of the reaction The molecular character of the bonds homeopolar owing to the size of the molecule is sahlike while ionic bonds through their hydrocarbon chains are transformed into what are characteristically atomicbondsIt is in the world of organic materials that we observe all tendeneies that are at the same time observable in the inorganic realm of the periodic table spread over a multitude of substances and yet realised through just six nonmetallic elements five of which are found on the earthIt is possible then to develop an overview which can be expanded in Class 12 of WaldorfSteiner schools to cover the entire world of substances In this way we provide access to chemistry through the world of living things and consider materials as the outcome of living processes We can claim in the end that materials are merely the captured images of ongoing processes AB - ST - Zur Begriffsbildung für die funktionellen Gruppen organischer Stoffe aus biologischen Prozessen UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.18756/jfg.2004.147 Y2 - 2024-04-29 04:48:29 ER -