Organic Chemistry

Organic chemistry is the study of carbon compounds.
-carbon forms multiple covalent bonds.
-Carbon compounds can form chains, rings, or branches.
-there are less than 100,000 non-organic compounds.
-Organic compounds number more than 17,000,000.

-The simplest organic compounds are made of carbon and hydrogen

Methane

Ethane

-Saturated compounds with only single bonds are called Alkanes and always end in -ane.