Coal and Petroleum

Organic Chemistry - A Separate Branch of Chemistry

Reasons for studying organic compounds as a separate branch of chemistry

Organic compounds are studied as a separate branch of chemistry because of the following reasons:

Existence of innumerable organic compounds.

Properties of organic compounds are distinctly different from those of inorganic compounds.

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	Introduction
	Fossil Fuels
	Fossil Fuels - Coal
	Fossil Fuels - Petroleum
	Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG)
	Fossil Fuels - Natural Gas
	Fossil Fuels - Synthetic Petroleum and Synthetic Gas
	Pollution caused due to Combustion of Fossil Fuels
	Carbon and its Compounds
	Organic Chemistry - Basic Concepts
	Organic Chemistry - A Separate Branch of Chemistry
	Reasons for Existence of Innumerable Compounds of Carbon
	Hydrocarbons - Definition and Examples
	Hydrocabons - Classification
	Nomenclature of Hydrocarbons
	Hydrocarbons - Isomerism in Alkanes
	Hydrocarbons - Homologous Series
	Alkanes - Introduction
	Alkanes - Methane, A Typical Example
	Biomass as a Fuel - Biogas
	Alkenes
	Alkenes - Ethene, A Typical Example
	Alkynes
	Alkynes - Ethyne
	Alkyne, Alkene, Alkane - Comparitive Table
Animations
	Destructive distillation of Coal Tar
	Isomerism in butane
	Isomerism in pentane
	Methane
	Catenation in carbon
	Ethene
	Ethyne
	Tests for hydrocarbons

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