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2.1 AMINO ACIDS:Building Blocks of Proteins 2.2 Ionization of amino acids 2.3 Spectroscopic Properties of Amino Acids 2.4 Reaction of Amino Acids 1.Amino acids The two enantiomers of an amino acid 2.Enantiomers All of the 20 standard amino acids,except for glycine,have four different groups arranged tetrahedrally around the Cαatom and thus can exist in either the D or L configuration. These two enantiomers are nonsuperimposable mirror images that can only be distinguished on the basis of their different rotation of plane polarized light. Only the L-isomer is found in