What are all the functional groups in penicillamine?

1 Answer
Jun 30, 2018

Three different functional groups.

Explanation:

![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillamine](useruploads.socratic.org)

On the image above the three different functional groups are highlighted.

Here we have an amine group NH2 (Green).

Here there is a Thiol group SH (Blue)

and at last there are an carboxylic acid group COOH (Yellow)

Then there are two methyl groups CH3. But those are normally not considered as "functional groups".