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1. organic chemistry study of all
compounds
containing carbon
2. Hydrocarbons the simplest organic ma-
terials, containing only the
elements hydrogen and
carbon
3. aliphatic hydrocarbon A hydrocarbon with
car-bon atoms joined
togeth-er in straight or
branched chains. Not
aromatic.
4. aromatic hydrocarbons hydrocarbons that
con-tain one or more
benzene rings
5. 3 types of aliphatic hydrocarbons alkanes - these
have their carbons
arranged in chains
or rings and
contain only C-C
single bonds
alkenes - these have
their carbons
arranged in chains or
rings and con-tain at
least one C=C dou-ble
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bond
alkynes - these have
their carbons
arranged in chains or
rings and con-tain at
least one CCatriple
bond
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6. Alkanes are the simplest of the hydro-
carbons, having the
gen-eral formula
CnH2n+2, where n is
the number of
carbon atoms
7. saturated hydrocarbons hydrocarbons that
con-tain only single
bonds be-tween carbon
atoms / the simplest
class of hydrocar-
bons / each carbon
atom is bonded to as
many hy-drogen
atoms as possible
8. alkane nomenclature 1-meth
2-eth
3-
prop
4-but
5-
pent
6-
hex
7-
hept
8-oct
9-
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non
10-dec
end with -ane
9. organic compound a covalently bonded
com-pound that
contains car-bon,
excluding carbon-
ates and oxides
10. Carbon forms how many bonds? 4 bonds
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