CHM 233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Organic Chemistry, Bromine, Fluorine
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Chm233 lecture #1: chapter 1: remembering general chemistry electronic structure and bonding. Molecules of life are all carbon-based: such as proteins, carbohydrates, dna molecules and nucleic acids. Important to understand organic chemistry is due to the fact that most life molecules are carbon-based. Will focus on: structures and bonding, nomenclatures and functional groups, reactivity of organic molecules. Organic molecules contain a few types of elements: most important is carbon, nonmetals (right-hand side of the periodic table) Iodine: metals (most of the periodic table is of metals) Only when working with acid-base reactions due to transfer of ions. Columns represent groups aka families: main groups: 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a, 6a, 7a, and 8a, have similar behaviors and characteristics to one another. Rows represent periods: metals on the left, nonmetals on the right. An atom is composed of three subatomic particles: protons. Atomic number indicates the number of protons. Reside in the nucleus of the atom.
