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This post is a summary of the "Form" section on Organic Chemistry. The many forms of organic compounds is interesting because their incredible diversity is unmatched by non-carbon (inorganic) compounds. The many varieties of organic compound types is due to the flexible bonding nature of the carbon atom itself.
Carbon is found listed in Family IVA of The Periodic Table of The Elements. Carbon is located in Family IVA because its isolated unbound form (a purely hypothetical existence) consists of four valence electrons. Four valence electrons will form four covalent bonds to satisfy the stable octet rule. In other words, a carbon atom has four bonding sites and, consequently, zero nonbonding pairs of electrons inside a molecule. The result is that carbon has many bonding "options". A carbon atom within a molecule can have 1) four single covalent bonds (e.g. Methane), 2) one single covalent bond and one triple covalent bond (e.g. Acetylene), 3) two double covalent bonds (e.g. Carbon Dioxide), and 4) two single covalent bonds and one double covalent bond (e.g. Ethene). Combine all this with Carbon's ease of bonding with other nonmetals, coupled with Carbon's "self-bonding" ability to form chains and rings, and it becomes easy to see why there are so many diverse organic compounds. The following presentation provides a summary of some organic compounds covered in this blog.
That's all for this post. The next segment of Organic Chemistry for this blog will focus on properties of Organic Compounds; aka, "Function" in this blog.
As always, Thank you for reading!
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This post is a summary of the "Form" section on Organic Chemistry. The many forms of organic compounds is interesting because their incredible diversity is unmatched by non-carbon (inorganic) compounds. The many varieties of organic compound types is due to the flexible bonding nature of the carbon atom itself.
Carbon is found listed in Family IVA of The Periodic Table of The Elements. Carbon is located in Family IVA because its isolated unbound form (a purely hypothetical existence) consists of four valence electrons. Four valence electrons will form four covalent bonds to satisfy the stable octet rule. In other words, a carbon atom has four bonding sites and, consequently, zero nonbonding pairs of electrons inside a molecule. The result is that carbon has many bonding "options". A carbon atom within a molecule can have 1) four single covalent bonds (e.g. Methane), 2) one single covalent bond and one triple covalent bond (e.g. Acetylene), 3) two double covalent bonds (e.g. Carbon Dioxide), and 4) two single covalent bonds and one double covalent bond (e.g. Ethene). Combine all this with Carbon's ease of bonding with other nonmetals, coupled with Carbon's "self-bonding" ability to form chains and rings, and it becomes easy to see why there are so many diverse organic compounds. The following presentation provides a summary of some organic compounds covered in this blog.
That's all for this post. The next segment of Organic Chemistry for this blog will focus on properties of Organic Compounds; aka, "Function" in this blog.
As always, Thank you for reading!
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