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Functional Group Defining Features
The deciding factors between what belongs where in a functional group.
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Organic Chemistry
Undergraduate 2
01/25/2015

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Term
Alkane
Definition
Single Bonds with Carbon
Term
Alkenes
Definition

Double Bond between addjacent carbon atoms

C=C

Term
Alkynes
Definition

Triple Bonds between adjacent carbons.

-CC-

Term
Aromatic Compounds
Definition

Contain a benzyne ring.

6 carbon atoms, 6 hydrogen atoms

C6H5-

Term
Alcohol
Definition

Contains a Hydroxyl functional group

-OH

Term
Ether
Definition

Oxygen Atom bonded to two carbon atoms

-C-O-C-

EG: CH3-O-CH3

Term
Thiol
Definition

-SH bonded to a carbon atom

-SH

EG: CH3-SH

Term
Aldehyde
Definition

Carbonyl group (C=O) attached to at least one hydrogen

 

                                        O 

                                        ||

                                       -C-H


Term
Ketone
Definition

Carbon of the carbonyl (C=O) group attached to 2 other carbon atoms

 

                                        O 

                                        ||

                                       -C- 

Term
Carboxylic Acid
Definition

Carboxyl group (carbonyl group (C=O) attached to a hydroxyl (-OH) group)

 

 

 

                                        O 

                                        ||

                                       -C- O-H

Term
Ester
Definition

Carboxyl Group (carbonyl group C=O attached to a hydroxyl group -OH) between two carbon atoms

 

                                        O 

                                        ||

                                       -C- O- 

Term
Amine
Definition

Functional group is a nitrogen atom.  Nitrogen atom with one or more carbon groups.

 

|

-N-

 

EG: CH3-NH2

Term
Amide
Definition

Hydroxyl group (-OH) group of a Carboxylic acid (carbonyl group C=O attached to a hydroxil group (-OH) is replaced with a nitrogen group

 

                                        O 

                                        ||  |

                                       -C- N-

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