Ben Paolo C. Rabara 1. What is the chemical structure of Caffeine?

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Empirical Formula: C8H10N4O2 IUPAC Name: 1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6(3H,7H)-dione 3,7-dihydro-1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione

2. Sources of Caffeine Natural: Common sources of caffeine are coffee, tea, soft drinks and energy drinks, and (to a lesser extent) chocolate derived fromcocoa beans. Commercial: Of all the commercial sources of caffeine, guarana paste has the highest concentration of the pure compound, about 4%. Guarana paste is made from the seed of the Paullinia tree, found primarily in Brazil.

3. Uses of Caffeine? The biggest use of caffeine is as a stimulant. People drink coffee and other drinks with caffeine to stay awake. Doctors sometimes use caffeine as a medicine like for example: headaches and head pain. Caffeine is sometimes given to people after lumber puncture, caffeine was found to relieve hunger so it was used for loss. 4. Mechanism of Action

the effect of caffeine on the vascular endothelium is a greater expression of NO, which has an autocrine effect, acting on the same endothelial cell to increase Ca2+, potentiating the response, and coming out of the endothelial cell to diffuse rapidly to the VSMC in a paracrine fashion. 4. To what 2nd degree metabolic does caffeine belong? Xanthine alkaloid 5. What is sublimation? Sublimation is the process of transformation directly from the solid phase to the gaseous phase without passing through an intermediate liquid phase.