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KMHS_Chemistry
Chapter 24/25 Vocabulary: Organic Compounds and Functional Groups
Question | Answer |
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Organic Chemistry | The study of compounds that contain the element Carbon |
Hydrocarbon | An organic compound that contains only Carbon and Hydorgen |
Alkane | Hydrocarbon containing only single covalent bonds (saturated hydrocarbons) |
Alkene | hydrocarbon containing only one one or more Carbon bonds (unsaturate hydrocarbons) |
Alkyne | hydrocarbon containing one or more Carbon triple bonds (unsaturated hydrocarbons) |
Functional group | a specific arrangement of atoms in an a specific arrangement of atoms in an organic compound that is capeable of characteristic chemical reactions;the chemistry of an organic compound is determined by its functional groups |
Cis | a term applied to geometric isomers; it denotes an arrangement in which the substituted are on the same side of the double bond |
Trans | a term applied to geometric isomers; it denotes an arrangement in which the substituted groups are on opposite sides of the double bond |
Isomer | Same atoms with different properties (physical and structural) |
Saturated | organic compound in which all carbon atoms are joined by single covalent bonds containing the maximum number of hydrogen |
Unsaturated | an organic compound whigh one or more couble or triple carbon bonds |
IUPAC | an internationally accepted sysem of naming compounds proposed by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry |