Organic Flashcards
Carbonyl compound
Compound containing a carbon double bonded to an oxygen
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Mechanism to show the movement of a pair of electrons
Electrophile
Electron pair acceptor
E/Z isomer
Type of steroisomerism caused by restricted rotation around the C=C
Carbon atoms must have two different groups attached
Functional group
Group of atoms responsible for the characteristics of the molecule
Functional group isomer
Same molecular formula but with atoms arranged into different functional groups
Homologous series
Group of organic compounds that have the same general formula and similar chemical properties
Intermediate
Reactive molecule that occurs in the middle of a step wise reaction mechanism
Nucleophile
Electron pair donor
Stereoisomer
Same structural formula but atoms are arranged in a differently in space
Structural isomer
Same molecular formula but different structural formula
Unsaturated
Double carbon bonds
Prefix for one carbon long branch
Methyl
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Between numbers