CHAPTER 2: Carbon and Its
Compounds
Lesson 1: Introduction to the study of Carbon
Compounds
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the Father of Organic Chemistry
CATENATION
• is the chemical property that enables an atom
to form chains of covalent bonds with its own
kind.
LESSON 2;
CLASSES OF
CARBON
COMPOUNDS
HYDROCARBONS
Hydrocarbons are organic compounds
made up chiefly of carbon and hydrogen
SUBSTITUTED HYDROCARBONS
Are those hydrocarbons in which one or
more hydrogen atoms are replaced by
another atom or group of atoms
FUNCTIONAL GROUPS
• are those hydrocarbons in which one
or more hydrogen atoms are replaced
by another atom or group of atoms
SATURATED HYDROCARBONS
- are hydrocarbons joined by single
covalent bonds
UNSATURATED HYDROCARBONS
- contain multiple bonds either double
or triple bonds
ALKANES (SATURATED
HYDROCARBONS)
• Alkanes are hydrocarbons in which
carbon-carbon bonds are all single bonds.
• Alkanes are also called paraffins.
TEN BASIC ALKANES
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ALKANES
• Methane is the chief constituent of
natural gas.
• Ethane is also found in cooking gas.
• Propane is found in LPG (Liquified
Petrolium Gas ).
• Butane is the fuel in cigarette
lighters.
ALKENES AND ALKYNES(Unsaturated
Carbons)
• Alkenes are hydrocarbons containing
carbon-carbon double bonds.
• Alkynes are hydrocarbons containing
at least one triple bond in the carbon
chain.
CYCLIC HYDROCARONS
• Alkanes, alkenes and alkynes may
form ring or closed-chain
hydrocarbons – they are often
referred as CYCLIC.
AROMATIC HYDROCARONS
• Aromatic hydrocarbons are
hydrocarbons containing a ring of six
carbon atoms, each with only one
hydrogen atoms(or other group)
attached.
LESSON 3
Naming and Writing
Formulas of
Hydrocarbons
MOLECULAR FORMULA
• Molecular formula gives the kind
and number of each type of atoms
composing an organic compound.
STRUCTURAL FORMULA
• Structural formula is a formula that
shows the actual structure of the
molecule and gives all the atoms in a
sequential order indicating bonding
patterns.
TEN BASIC ALKANES
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ALKYNES EXPANDED STRUCTURE CONDENSED STRUCTURE

Chapter 2