This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
Definitions
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Organic Molecules Molecules containing carbon atoms.
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Hydrocarbons Compounds containing only C (Carbon) and H (Hydrogen).
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Saturated No double or triple bonds; not able to bond to any further atoms.
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Unsaturated Counting double or triple bonds; able to bond to further atoms.
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Functional Group The group of atoms that identifies what homologous series a molecule originates from.
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Homologous Series a group of organic compounds with the same functional group and similar structure, physical and chemical properties.
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Catenation linkage of atoms of the same element into longer chains through covalent bonds.
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Isomer Compounds with the same molecular formula but different structural formula.
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Prefixes
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-meth |
2 |
-eth |
3 |
-prop |
4 |
-but |
5 |
-pent |
6 |
-hex |
7 |
-hept |
8 |
-oct |
Drawing Formulae
Structural Formula - shows all bonds between atoms.
Condensed Structrural Formula - atoms written in groups, giving the structure unambiguously, but not showing all the bonds
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