Lec 1 Flashcards
Study of compounds that contain the element carbon
Organic chemistry
What is Organic compounds? (2 definitions)
Derived from living things
Impossible to synthesize
4 properties of organic compounds
- All organic compounds contain hydrogen and carbon
- Carbons forms single, double, and triple bonding with other carbon atoms
- Some compounds chains and rings of atom
- Organic compunds may also contain atoms other than carbon and hydrogen (heteroatom)
Carbon have ____ covalent bond?
4
Hydrogen have _____ covalent bond?
1
Exceptions in all organic compounds contain carbon and hydrogen
- Carbonate
- Carbide
- CO
- CO2
- Cyanide
- Thiocyanate
Linkage of atoms of the same elemnt that forms chains
Catenation
C forms ___
Four single bonds
Double bond contains ___
4 electrons
Triple bond contains _____
6 electrons
Any atom that is not carbon or hydrogen
Heteroatom
6 most common heteroatom
- Nitrogen
- Oxygen
- Halogens:
- Fluorine
- Chlorine
- Bromine
- Iodine
Heteroatoms forms characteristic number of bonds, determined by its _____
Location in the periodic table
Heteroatom have non bonding (____) so that each atom is sorrounded by 8 electrons
Lone pairs
No. Of bonds and Lone pairs of nitrogen
3 bonds
1 lone pair