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Lesson 30: Organic Chemistry

• Organic chemistry is the study of carbon compounds

                  - carbons form multiple covalent bonds

• Carbon compounds can form chains, rings or branches

                 - less than 100 000 non-organic compounds
                 - organic compounds numbers more than 17, 000, 000

• The simplest organic compounds are made of carbon & hydrogen 
• Saturated compounds have no double or triple bonds 
• Compounds with only single bonds are called Alkanes and always end in -ane 
• 3 categories of Organic compounds 

                 1) Straight chains
                 2) Cylic chains
                 3) Aromatics

STRAIGHT CHAINS (rules for naming):
1. Circle the longest continuous chain and name this as the base chain
            - meth, eth, prop...
2. Number the base chain so side chains have the lowest possible numbers
3. Name each side chain using the -yl ending
4. Give each side chain the appropriate number
          - if there is more than one side chain, numbers / labels
            are slightly different
5. List side chains alphabetically.

posted by chemistry11 @ 9:43 PM