What is organic chemistry?
Organic chemistry studies the structure, properties and reactions of organic compounds. Organic compounds are compounds which contain carbon
Originally, those compounds were thought to have been produced only by living organisms, hence the term organic. However,
Why is carbon special?
Carbon can form stable covalent bonds with other atoms or with other carbon atoms. This allows carbon atoms to form a huge number of different combinations. In fact, there are more than
The figure below shows different possible combinations (hence different compounds) containing a combination of 4 carbon atoms, 8 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom.
