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Why is organic chemistry considered the chemistry of *carbon* compounds?


✓~ Because it's the chemistry that involves the study of organic carbon

compounds.




What is organic chemistry?


✓~ The branch of chemistry that involves the study of organic carbon

compounds. It encompasses the structures, composition and synthesis of carbon-

containing compounds.




How many known organic compounds are there?


✓~ More than six million.




Why is there such an amazing amount of different organic compounds?


✓~ Because carbon atoms have the ability to form strong bonds with many

different elements, as well as covalently bond to other carbon atoms while

simultaneously bonded to nonmetals.

,Why is organic chemistry important?


✓~ It is a part of many everyday things we use, from the food we eat to the

products we use.




Give a few examples of everyday "things" that contain organic compounds.


✓~ Clothing, plastics, fibres, medications, insecticides, petroleum-derived

chemicals.




What are some examples of organic compounds that are not living?


✓~ Diamond, coal, acids, sugars, benzene, naphthalene, methane




What elements does the body mostly consist of?


✓~ Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen




What are the two ways chemists classify chemicals?


✓~ Organic or inorganic




What are organic compounds?

, ✓~ Compounds that contain carbon




What are the exception compounds that fit the organic compound definition but

are not organic compounds?


✓~ CO, CO2, CS2, carbonates (CO3), bicarbonates (HCO3), cyanides (CN) and

carbides (ie: CaC2)




What are inorganic compounds?


✓~ Compounds that do not contain carbon




Of the 13 000 000 known compounds, how many are inorganic?


✓~ 100 000




What is the "vital force"?


✓~ The ability that allowed living organisms to produce organic compounds.




How did Friedrich Wöhler change the way scientists perceived the nature of

organic compounds?

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