Example Name of Physical and Chemical Structure/ Molecular Formula Uses and applications

COmpound Functional Properties

group

Ferric Diphosphate generally white or colorless.. Ferric pyrophosphate is used to

Pyrophosphate treat iron deficiency in people
with chronic kidney disease who
are on dia lysis.

[P2O7] 4-
Diphosphorus Diphosphate appears as a greenish yellow P2Se5 It is used for making lube oil
Pentasulfide solid with an odor of rotten additives, insecticides, flotation
eggs. Density agents, safety matches, blown
2.09 g/mL at 25 °C asphalt, and other products and
Weight: chemicals.
191.3

adenosine Diphosphate consists of adenosine – C10H15N5O10P2 an important organic compound

Diphosphate composed of an adenine ring and in metabolism and is essential to
a ribose sugar – and three the flow of energy in living cells.
phosphate groups

Copalyl Diphosphate Weight: 450 g/mol C20H36O7P2 Used in copalyl diphosphate

Diphosphate n enzymology, an ent-copalyl synthase, an enzyme that
diphosphate synthase (EC catalizes chemical reactions.
5.5.1.13) is an enzyme that
catalyzes
the chemical reaction: Hence,
this enzyme has one substrate,
geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate,
and one product, ent-copalyl
pyrophosphate.
Hexaprenyl Diphosphate Weight: 518.5 g/mol hexaprenyl diphosphate belongs
DIphosphate Has a crystallized structure to the class of organic compounds
known as bactoprenol
diphosphates. These are
polyprenyl compounds consisting
of a diphosphate group substituted
by a bactoprenyl moiety. All-trans-
hexaprenyl diphosphate is a very
hydrophobic molecule, practically
insoluble (in water), and relatively
neutral.

C30H52O7P2 All-trans-hexaprenyl diphosphate

is the final product of hexaprenyl
diphosphate biosynthesis
pathway. In this pathway multiple
units of isopentenyl
diphosphate (IPP) undergo a
series of polymerizations to form
various polyisoprenoids.