Organic Chemistry

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. It is responsible for many of the every day products that are used around the world.
Some examples:

• clothing
• all plastics

Properties of organic compounds

• low melting points
• weak or non-electrolytes
• can form chains of carbon atoms that are linked in a 
• Straight line
• circular pattern
• branched pattern
• can link with other atoms in a

Alkanes (unbranched/straight chain) 

A hydrocarbon is a compound that contains only hydrogen and carbon; there are diff. types of hydrocarbons, and diff. ways to represent them.

Alkanes are saturated hydrocarbons which have carbon atoms bonded by single bonds

-saturate: not possible for another atom to bond to the structure

Naming an alkane is pretty simple. The names of hydrocarbons end in "-ane" because they are alk-ANE-s. 

Here's a video on naming the first 10 alkanes

The First 10 Alkanes

Alkyl Groups

-these are alkanes that have lost one hydrogen atom

if there are more than one of the same kind of alkyl group, use the prefix "di", "tri", "tetra" etc. 

Organic Chemistry