Basic Concepts and Hydrocarbons

Naming Organic Chemicals

Homologous series are families of organic chemicals, they have the same functional group and they differ by CH2.

Aliphatic-straight chains.

Alicyclic- carbon atoms form in a ring.

Aromantic- where there is at least one benzene ring.

Skeletal formula is a simplified structural formula drawn by removing hydrogen atoms from alkyl groups.

Isomers are compunds that have the same molecular formula but different arrangement of atoms, there are a few different types:

Structural formulas- compounds with…