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| What is a Organic Compound? |
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| Any substance contains carbon in its structure criteria of carbon atom |
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| What is the structure of carbon like? |
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| Carbon has the ability to make 4 covalent bonds, macromolecules form 4 covalent bonds with eachother |
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| What does carbon usually bond with in nature? |
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| Organic molecules only consisting of C and H, very common in organic molecules. They can undergo reactions that release alot of energy |
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| compounds that have the same numbers of atoms of the same elements but different structures and properties. |
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| What are structural isomers? |
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| differ in covalent arrangements |
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| What is a Cis-Trans isomer? |
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| Carbons that have covalent bonds to the same atoms, but these atoms difffer in their spatial arrangements due to infleibility of double bonds. |
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| both X's on the same side |
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| Isomers that are mirrorimages of eachother and that differ in shape due to presence of an asymmetric carbon, (one that's attached to 4 different atoms or groups of atoms.) |
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| Why is carbon a main element in an organic compound? |
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| structure, Carbon skeleton, Hydrocarbons, Isomers, and presence of functional groups. |
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| What are the 4 characteristics of a carbon skeleton? |
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| length, branch, double bond position, and presence of rings. |
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| Why are hydrocarbons considered nonpolar? |
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| The electronegativity of carbon and hydrogen are equal |
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| What is a functional group? |
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| form a covalent bond with C to specify what function it has |
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| What is the OH functional group |
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| What is the CO functional group? |
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| What is the COOH functional group? |
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| What is the NH2 functional group? |
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| What is the SH functional group? |
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| What is the OPO3-2 group? |
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