Introduction
Organic compounds form a broad sub-set of covalent compounds. These are characterised by hydrocarbon chains that may (or may not) contain attached or linking heteroatom groups.
The number of possible organic compounds is staggering - there are more than 4.11 x 109 different structures containing carbon and hydrogen only.
In Structure 3.2 - Functional groups: Classification of organic compounds
- 3.2.1 - Organic formula representation
- 3.2.2 - Functional groups
- 3.2.3 - Homologous series
- 3.2.4 - Physical properties of homologous series
- 3.2.5 - IUPAC nomenclature
- 3.2.6 - Structural isomerism
- 3.2.7 - Stereoisomerism
- 3.2.8 - Mass spectrometry of organic compounds
- 3.2.9 - IR spectroscopic analysis
- 3.2.10 - NMR spectroscopy
- 3.2.11 - NMR splitting patterns
- 3.2.12 - Structural analysis