Structures, reactions and properties of commercially important organic compounds

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Family of organic chemicals
Homologous series
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Group of atoms resposible for the characteristic reaction of a substance
Functional group
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A hydrocarbon with carbon atoms joined together in straight or branched chains
Aliphatic
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A hydrocarbon with carbon atoms joined together in a ring structure
Alicyclic
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A hydrocarbon containing at least obe benxene ring
Aromatic
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A system of the international union of pure and applied chemistry for naming organic compounds
IUPAC nomenclature
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Contains single bonds only
Saturated compound
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Alkane where at leasr one hydrogen is replaced by a halogen
Haloalkane
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Compound based on a carbon structure
Organic compound
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Two or more compounds that have the same molecular formua but a diffrent arrangement of atoms in the compound and so have diffrent properties
Isomers
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The step by step sequence of reactions that lead to an overall chemical change occuring. It shows the movement of electrons in the process
Reaction mechanism
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Addition of halogen such as bromine or chlorine to an alkane
Halogenation
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Formation of a free radical by splitting bond eenly so free radical has one of the two available electrons
Homolytic fission
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Atom with a single unpaired electron
Free radical
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A reaction using an electrophile where two or more molecules bond to become one product
Electrophilic addition
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The average amount of energy for a mole of a given bond to undergo homolytic fission in the gasous state
Mean bond enthalpy
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Species that are electron-paie acceptors and are attacted to areas of high eletron density
Eletrophiles
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A reaction where two ore more molecules join together to give a single product
Additional reaction
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Everything that is not part of the system
Surroundings
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A temperature scale with absolute zero as zero
Kelvin scale
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A reaction that releases enrergy
Exothermic reaction
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A reaction that absorbs energy
Endothermic reaction
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The enrgy required to raise the temperature of 1 g of a substance by 1 k
Specific heat capacity
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