ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Organic chemistry deals with the study of carbon compounds and the reactions involving carbon.  In addition, carbon valency of 4 means different kinds of chemical bonding can occur. For instance, there are single, double and triple bonds and this is also related to the hybridization and the reactivity of carbon. Therefore, this is called functional groups and will be examined further in more detail.

The alkanes (alkane functional group) contain single carbon-carbon and carbon-hydrogen bonds throughout. However, alkenes have one or double carbon-carbon bonds while alkynes have at least one triple carbon-carbon bond.

The presence of atoms of other elements (heteroatoms) in the organic compound introduces other functional groups. For example, common elements such as  O, N, Halogens, S, P are very common in organic molecules. Therefore, there are many other different kinds of functional groups in organic chemistry, and this will be shown later.

The subject of organic chemistry is broad however teaching usually involves the following topics: