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Organic Chemistry - Answer The branch of chemistry which deals with carbon compounds, including those with no relationship to life. Covalent Bond - Answer Inter-atomic relationship created by the sharing of at least one pair of electrons. Saturated Hydrocarbon - Answer Contain only only carbon-to-carbon single bonds. The most chemically inert of all organic compounds. Unsaturated Hydrocarbon - Answer Contain carbon-to-carbon double or triple bonds. Atomic Structure of Carbon ...

Macromolecules - Answer carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids organic chemistry - Answer the study of compounds containing carbon Carbohydrates - Answer the starches and sugars present in foods Monosaccharides - Answer simple sugars Disaccharide - Answer A double sugar molecule made of two monosaccharides bonded together through dehydration synthesis. Polysaccharides - Answer Carbohydrates that are made up of more than two monosaccharides Examples of monosa...

What makes something organic? - Answer always contains carbon, usually contains hydrogen, may contain oxygen and nitrogen. What is an organic compound? - Answer a compound that contains tehe element carbon. What makes something inorganic? - Answer doesn't contain carbon What are some inorganic compounds that DO contain carbon? - Answer carbon dioxide (CO2) and calcium carbonate )CaCO3) What is cohesion? - Answer the force of attraction between molecules of the same substan...

reduction - Answer increasing the hydrogen content or decreasing the oxygen content reduction of carboxylic acid gives... - Answer primary alcohol reduction of ester gives... - Answer primary alcohol reduction of aldehyde gives... - Answer primary alcohol reduction of ketone gives... - Answer secondary alcohol reduction of carbonyls by hydrogenation - Answer 1. only works for aldehydes and ketones ease of reduction - Answer carboxylic acids < esters < ketone...

the study of compounds that contain the element carbon. - Answer organic chemistry natural organic compounds - Answer cotton, wool, or silk synthetic organic compounds - Answer nylon and polyester what do all organic compounds contain? - Answer carbon and hydrogen atoms carbon always forms how many covalent bonds? - Answer 4 what type of bonds can carbon form? - Answer single, double, or triple a carbon atom surrounded by four atoms four single bonds - Answer etha...

addition reaction - Answer an organic reaction in which a substance such as hydrogen or a halogen is added to the site of a double or triple bond in an organic molecule alcohol - Answer an organic compound containing the hydroxyl group (-OH) as the functional group aldehyde - Answer an organic compound in which the carbonyl group (-C=O) is at the end of a carbon chain alkane - Answer one of a homologous series of saturated hydrocarbons (CnH2n+2) alkene - Answer one of a hom...

Organic Chemistry - Answer Chemistry of compounds CONTAINING carbon Inorganic Chemistry - Answer Chemistry of compounds NOT containing carbon What is the simplest organic compound? - Answer Methane Three ways to represent organic compounds - Answer 1.) Condensed structural formula 2.) Dash Formula 3.) Bond-line formula ("stick figure") Bond-line formula - Answer Each intersection and endpoint is a carbon atom; H atoms are assumed. *If a hydrogen is bonded to a heter...

Compound - Answer A substance made up of atoms of two or more different elements joined by chemical bonds. Organic compounds - Answer Compounds that contain bonds between carbon atoms. The four major groups of organic compounds are carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids. Inorganic compounds - Answer Compounds that do not contain carbon. Examples are water and NaCl (salt). Lipids - Answer Energy-rich organic compounds, such as fats, oils, and waxes, that are made of c...

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