Organic chemistry

• Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds

  -all organic compounds contain carbon and usually contain hydrogen
• Organic chemicals

  -CH4 methane

  -C2H6O ethanol

  -CH3COOH ethanoic acid
• Inorganic chemicals

  -CO cobalt

  -CO2 carbon dioxide

  -CaCO3 calcium carbonate
• Functional group - determines the chemical properties of a molecule.
• Homologous series - a ‘family’ of similar compounds with similar chemical properties due to the presence of the same functional group
• Example of homologous series of alcohol

  -CH3OH methanol

  -C2H5OH ethanol

  -C2H7OH propanol