groups of organic compounds

Functional groups containing nitrogen are present in a variety of naturally occurring and man made organic compounds. These functional groups impart physico- chemical characteristics to these molecules. These groups are responsible for their u..

Alcohols, phenols, ethers, aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids are compounds with functional groups containing oxygen. An alcohol contains one or more hydroxyl (OH) groups(s) attached to aliphatic carbon atom(s). For e.g., ethyl alcohol formula CH 3 , CH 2 , ..

Introduction - The simplest organic compounds are hydrocarbons. All organic compounds can be derived from hydrocarbons by substituting a hydrogen atom with a suitable functional group. Replacing a hydrogen atom by a OH group in a hydrocarb..

Introduction - This chapter contains oxygen compounds in which oxygen is bonded to a carbon atom through a double bond. The functional unit >C = O, present in these compounds is called carbonyl group. We limit our study now to compounds having an acyl ..

Summary - Alcohols and Phenols are compounds containing -OH as the functional groups. In alcohols, the -OH group is attached to sp 3 hybridised carbon. In phenols, it is attached to sp 2 hybridised carbon of an aromatic ring. In ethers, oxygen atom is attached to two c..

Summary - Aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and their functional derivatives (aryl halides, acid anhydrides, esters and amides) contain a carbonyl group and are highly polar molecules. They boil at higher temperature than hydrocarbon and weakly polar compounds like ethers, of..

Introduction - Organic compounds are isolated either from natural sources or from reaction mixtures. These compounds are seldom pure and are usually contaminated with small amounts of other similar compounds, which are found to exist together or formed during..

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