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- Carbon can form long chains and rings, especially with Hydrogen attatched
- Compounds with just Carbon and Hydrogen are Hydrocarbons (non polar compounds like oil and waxes)
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| Properties of Hydrocarbons |
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- They have low melting and boiling points
- Flammable
- Non polar and mix poorly with water
- Used for many of our fuels
- Tend to burn in combustion reactions
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- Carbon Chains- When many carbons are bonded together to make long chains or rings (often consist of many hydrocarbons bonded together)
- Hydrocarbons- Carbon atoms bonded only with Hydrogen
- Fuctional Groups- Specialized clusters of atoms covalently bonded to Carbon (many organic molecules are long chains or rings of HC bonded to functional groups
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| Molecular Diversity from Carbon Skeleton Variation |
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- Isomers-2 compounds with same molecular formula but different chemical and physical properties
- Structural- completley different atom arrangement from each other
- Geometric- different atom arrangement around carbon double bond
- Enantiomers- mirror images of each other
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| Describes a molecule that is different from its mirror image enantiomers are chiral |
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| Describes a molecule that is the same as its mirror image |
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- Hydroxyl
- Carbonyl
- Carboxyl
- Amino
- Sulfhydryl
- Phosphate
- Methyl
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