Organic chemistry is the study of compounds containing carbon. Carbon has the unique ability to form covalent bonds with four other atoms, allowing it to link together in chains and rings. Many organic compounds are hydrocarbons, which contain only carbon and hydrogen, such as methane and fossil fuels. Plastics are polymers created from hydrocarbon monomers linking together. Organic chemistry explores the structures and properties of these and other carbon-containing compounds important to materials, medicine, and living things.

1. Organic chemistry
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2. What is organic chemistry???
 Organic chemistry is the science that
studies the substances that contain
carbon.
 An organic compound is a compound
where carbon is bonded to hydrogen.

3. Organic
 When we hear that something is "organic"
we think that is natural and that is only
found in living things but that is not true.
 When something is organic is when
carbon is bonded to hydrogen.
 CO2 and CaCo3 are some examples of
inorganic compounds.

4. Daily life
 We can find organic compounds in our
clothes, medicines, toys even in the
shampoos.

5. Why carbon???
 What makes carbon so special??? Well
carbon is a very especial elemet
becaus.....
 It has the ability to make covalent bonds
with other elements and with other
carbonds.
 Carbon is a "tetravalent", this means that
it can bond with four different atoms at
the same time.

6. Hydrocarbonds
 Hydrocarbons are a type of complex
organic compounds and like the name
saids it they are molecules made just of
carbon and hydrogen.
 You can found hydrocarbonds in fossil
fuels (oil).
 With fossil fuels you can make: gasoline,
plastics, oils, etc.

7. Hydrocarbonds
 There are plenty of hydrocarbonds but the
simplest one is methane, then we have
ethane, propane, butane and many other
ones.

8. Hydrocarbonds
 Meth: means that it has just one carbon
atom.
 Eth: just two carbon atoms.
 Prop: three carbon atoms.
 But: four carbon atoms.
 Depends in the alkanes the name will
change

9. Alkanes, alkenes and alkynes
 Alkanes: This name is given to
hydrocarbonds that have single bonds and
also called saturated hydrocarbonds
because all the carbonds are bonded to a
hydrogen.

10. Alkanes, alkenes and alkynes
 Alkenes: They are also a hydrocarbon but
alkenes are found as a doble bond.
 Alkynes: They are hydrocarbonds but with
a triple bond!!!! And that is all no more
types of bonds 4,5,6,7, etc.

11. Plastics
 As we all know plastics are synthetic
which means that they are artificial. But
what we don't know is that synthetic
means that something is "put together".

12. Plastics
 The building blocks for making a plastic are
the organic molecules. Organic molecules
hace complex, small molecules called
monomers and what they do is to join with
other monermers to make a big chain of
monomers called polymers.

13. Plastic
 In the chemical reaction in which
monomers form polymers
(polymerization), the result of all this
polymers are known as resin.
 After the resin is done (in a powder)
different factories put other additives to
the resin to gave different properties and
do different materials.
 Example: polyethylene ( plastic bag)

14. Plastic
 But polymers are not only synthetical.
There are polymers in our body,in plants,
cotton and also in proteins.

15. Nomenclature
 "A set or systemof names or terms
(usually in art or science) by a
community" or "The names or terms
comprising a set or system"
Dictionary.com

16. Bibliography
 Lewis Rob, Wynne Evans
 Chimistry
 Palgrave Macmillan
 Basingstoke
 2006