Question

Your friend, a business major, overhears you talking about chemical energy and food and decides to develop a new super food for busy students that just don’t have time to cook but want to eat a well-balanced diet for a reasonable price. If your friend wants to design a meal bar that contains a high amount of potential energy that the body could use, how would you recommend they rank the possible atom interactions they could incorporate into the chemical formula? Rank from highest chemical energy to lowest.

I. C-O or C=O
II. C-C
III. C-H
IV. O-H

Answer 1

The correct sequence is IV > III > I > II.

IV) O-H is Hydrogen bond
III) C-H is Covalent bond
I) C=O is Partially ionic bond
II) C-C is Covalent bond