BSC 114 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Electron Configuration, Chon, Electronegativity
20 Sep 2016
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Section 4. 1: organic chemistry is the study of carbon compounds. Organic chemistry is the study of organic compounds (compounds that contain carbon) o. By early 1800s, chemist had learned to make simple compounds in the laboratory by combining elements under the right conditions. Organic compounds were thought to arise only in living organisms. Began to chip away at this notion when they learned to synthesize organic compounds in the. 1953- stanley miller helped bring the abiotic (nonliving) synthesis of organic compounds into the context of evolution o. Concluded that complex organic molecules could arise spontaneously under conditions thought at that time to have existed on early earth. Overall percentages of the major elements of life (chnops) are quite uniform from one organism to another, reflecting the common evolutionary origin of all life. Section 4. 2: carbon atoms can form diverse molecules by bonding to four other atoms.
