Organic Chemistry

Nomenclature
- Organic chemistry is the study of Carbon compounds
   - Carbon forms multiple covalent bonds
- Carbon compounds can form chains, rins, or branches
   - there are less than 100 000 non-organic compounds
   - organic compounds number more than 17 000 000
- The simplest organic compounds are made of carbon and hydrogen
- Saturated compounds have no double or triple bonds
- Compounds with only single bonds are called alkanes and always end in -ane
- Isomer-two or more compounds with the same empirical formulas
- There are three categories of organic compounds
   - Straight Chains
      - rules for naming chain compounds
         - Circle the longest continuous chain and name this as the base chain -meth ,eth ,prop...
         - Number the base chain so side chains have the lowest possible numbers
         - Give each side chain using the -yl ending
         - Give each side chain the appropriate number
           - if there is more than one identical side chain numbers are slightly different
         - List side chains alphabetically
   - Cyclic Chains
   - Aromatics

- JanCarlo Paysan