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Organic Chemistry Basics

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organic chemistry   chemistry related to the compounds containing carbons  
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funcational group   an atom or group of atoms within a molecume that shows a characterisitic set of predictable physical and chemical behaviors  
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alcohol group   a compund containing an -OH group bonded to a tetrahedral carbon atom  
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hydroxyl group   an -OH group bonded to a tetrahedral carbon atom  
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amine   an organic compund in which 1,2 or 3 hydrogens of ammonia are replaced by carbon groups of RNH2 OR R2NH OR R3N  
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amino group   an -NH2, RNH2, OR R3N group  
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carbonyl group   a C=O group  
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aldehyde   a compound containing a carbonyl group bonded to a hydrogen a -CHO group  
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ketone   a compound containing a carbonyl group bonded to 2 carbon groups  
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carboxyl group   a -COOH group  
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ester   a derivation of carboxylic in which the H of the carbon group  
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alkane   a saturated hydrocarbon whose carbon atoms are arranged in a chain  
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hydrocarbon   a compound that contains only carbon and hydrogen atoms  
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saturated hydrocarbon   a hydrocarbon that contains only C-C bonds  
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aliphatic hydrocarbon bonds   an alkane  
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line angle formula   an abbreviated way to draw structure formulas in which each vertex and line terminus represents a carbon atom and each line represents a bond  
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consitutional isomers   compounds with the same molecular formula but a different connectivity of their atoms  
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alkyl groups   a group derived by removing a hydrogen from an alkane given the symbol R  
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R-   a symbol used to represent an alkyl group  
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cycloalkane   a saturated hydrocarbon that contains carbon atoms boned to form a ring  
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conformations   any 3-D arrangement of atoms in a molecule that results from rotation about a single bond  
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equatorial position   a position on a chair conformation of a cyclohexane ring that extends from the ring roughly perpendicular to an imaginary axis of the ring  
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axial position   a position on a chair confromation of a cyclohexane ring that extends from the ring prallel to the imaginary axis of the ring  
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cis-trans   isomers that have the same connectivity of their atoms but a different arrangement of their atoms in space due to the presence of either a ring or a C=C  
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sterocenter   tertahedral atoms most commonly carbon at which exchange of 2 groups produces a stereoisomer  
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configuration   refers to the arrangment o fatoms about a stereocenter that is the reative arrangment of parts of a molecule in space  
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stereoisomer   isomer that have the same connectivity of their atoms but different orientation of their atoms in space  
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alkene   an unsaturated hydrocarbon that contains a C=C  
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alkyne   an unsaturated hydrocarbon that contains a triple C C bond  
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Termal Cracking   a saturated hydrocarbon that is converted into an unsaturated hydrocarbon plus H2  
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cycloalkenes   number of carbon atoms of the ring = bond 1 and 2  
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Terpene   a compund whose carbon skeleton can be divided into two or more units identical to 5 carbon skeleton of isoprene  
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Essential oils   highly fragrant oils from plants (rose, fressia, etc)  
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regioselective reaction   a reaction in which one direction of bond formation or bond breaking occurs in preference to all other directions  
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markovinkov's rule   in the addition of HX or H2O to alkene Hydrogens add to the carbon of the C=C having a greater humber of Hydrogens  
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reaction mechanism   a step by step description of how a chemical reaction occurs  
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carbocation   a species containing carbon atoms with only 3 bonds to it and bearing a positive charge  
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hydration   addition of water  
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oxonium ion   an ion in which oxygen is bonded to 3 other atoms and bears a positive charge  
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catalytic reducation/ catalytic hydrogenation   the conversion of an alkane involves reducation by hydrogen in teh presence of a catalyst  
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polymer   many parts any long chain molecule synthesized by bonding together many single parts called monomers  
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monomer   single part, simplest nonredundant unit from which a polymer is synthesized  
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peroxide   any compund that contains an -O-O- bond as for example hydrogen peroxide H-O-O-H  
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aromatic compunds   benzene or one of its derivatives  
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arene   a compund contian one or more benzene rings  
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aryl group   a group derived from an arene by removal of an H and given the symbol Ar-  
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Ar-   The symbol fused for aryl group  
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Resonance hybid   a molecule best decribed as a composite of 2+ Lewis structures  
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contributing structure   each individual lewis structure  
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phenyl group   C6H15 aryl group derived by removing an Hydrogen atom from a benzene  
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Autoxidation   ocidation requiring oxygen and no other reactant  
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Active figure   autoxidation is a radical chain reaction vonverting hydrocarbons to a a hyroperoxide  
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Chain length   number of times the cycle of chain propagation steps repeats  
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Diol   a compound containing 2 -OH groups  
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Triol   a compound containing 3 -OH groups  
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Glycol   a compound with hydroxyl groups on adjacent carbons  
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hydrogen bonding   Dipole-Dipole bond, between electronegative atoms and a hydrogen bonded to another electronegative atom  
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dehydration   elimination of molecule of water from an alcohol, OH is removed from 1 C and H is removed from the adjacent C  
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ether   a compund containing an oxygen between 2 atoms  
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cyclic ether   an ether in which the ether oxygen is one of the atoms of the ring  
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thiol   an -SH (sulfhydroyl group) bonded to a tetrahedral carbon atom  
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mercaptan   a common name for any molecule containing an -SH group  
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electronegativity   electons pulling ability on a molecule  
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polarity   how equally bonding electons are shared between atoms, effects solubility, melting and boiling points  
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covalent bonding   sharing of pairs of electrons  
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ionic bonding   electrostative bond between 2 oppositely charged ions  
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sigma bonding   2 atoms are held together by the forces operating between them and a pair of elections shared by them the electon pair occupies an orbital  
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pi bond   a conhesive interaction between to atoms and a pair of elections that occupy and an orbital located in 2 regions parallel  
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free radical   a compound containing an unpaired electron  
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Diradical   a compound that contains 2 unpaired electrons (oxygen)  
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Monoterpene   2 Isoprenes  
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Sesquiterpenes   3 Isoprenes  
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Diterpenes   4 Isoprenes  
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Triterpenes   6 Isoprenes  
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Tetraterpenes   8 Isoprenes  
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Wohler   Made an organic out of 2 inorganics  
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Fredrick.Kekule   Redefined organics how we know know it and found the benzene ring  
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Markovinkov   rule of bonding H go towards more H's in reaction for stability  
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L. Pauling   motion within benzene rings  
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