CHEM 281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ionic Bonding, Organic Chemistry, Catenation
17 Aug 2016
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Organic chemistry is based on compounds containing carbon. Carbon can bond to itself (catenation) and form chains, as well as having the ability to form double and triple bonds. Both of these properties give rise to a huge number of possible compounds, and a large degree of variability within these compounds. Organic used to mean that the compound came from a living source. In the early 1900s, they began to synthesize organic compounds (urea was the first) and since then many industries are based around synthesizing organic compounds. Anything plastic is a polymer of organic molecules for example. The 4 main elements in organic compounds are: The compounds we have mainly been considering up to this point are called inorganic compounds. We will compare some of the differences between these two types of compounds. Can disassociate to ions so not conduct electricity conducts electricity. Ionic compounds and most form chains other elements cannot form chains.
