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Organic Chemistry: Some Basic Principles and Techniques

ICSE · Class 11 · Chemistry

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A step-by-step mechanism illustrating the nucleophilic addition of HCN to a carbonyl compound (e.g., acetone), showing the polarization of the C=O bond and the attack of the nucleophile.
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Organic chemistry is the study of hydrocarbons and the compounds derived from them. Carbon forms more than five million compounds because of catenation, tetracovalency, multiple bond formation, and isomerism. Organic compounds are generally covalent, show wide structural variety, and are studied thr

Key Concepts

Organic chemistry deals with hydrocarbons

Organic chemistry deals with hydrocarbons and the compounds derived from hydrocarbons. Carbon compounds are studied separately because they are very n

Berzelius defined organic compounds as substances

Berzelius defined organic compounds as substances derived from living organisms. Wohler prepared urea in the laboratory in 1828 by boiling aqueous amm

Carbon atoms can link with one

Carbon atoms can link with one another by stable covalent bonds to form straight chains, branched chains, and rings. Ground state carbon has only two

sp3

sp3, sp2, and sp hybridisation explain the shapes of methane, ethane, ethene, and ethyne. Bond length decreases in the order C-C 154 pm > C=C 134 pm >

Pi bonds restrict rotation because breaking

Pi bonds restrict rotation because breaking a pi bond needs energy. This gives rise to cis and trans forms in suitable alkenes. Compounds of the type

Learning Objectives

  • Understand why carbon forms an exceptionally large number of compounds.
  • Classify organic compounds into open-chain, cyclic, alicyclic, aromatic, and heterocyclic types.
  • Use basic IUPAC rules for naming open-chain, cyclic, and aromatic compounds.
  • Recognise structural and stereo isomerism, including geometrical and optical isomerism.
  • Identify the effect of bond breaking and electron displacement in organic reactions.

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