What element must be in all organic compounds?
What is carbon?
This reaction can only take place on an unsaturated molecule.
What is an addition reaction?
C2H6
What is ethane?
A molecule with an -OH group attached to a carbon
What is an alcohol?
The number of valence electrons for carbon.
What is 4?
A carbon forms this many bonds.
What is 4?
This is the reaction between an organic acid and an alcohol.
What is an esterification?
The chemical products of combustion of hydrocarbons
What are carbon dioxide and water?
These isomers of alcohols have the oxygen between two carbon atoms, so they cannot hydrogen bond with each other.
What are ethers?
Two examples of natural polymers.
What are cellulose, silk, starches, proteins?
The molecular formula of pentane.
What is C5H12?
This is the by-product formed in an esterification reaction.
What is water?
C2H5OH or C2H6O
What is the formula for ethanol?
This very reactive family of nonmetals are often used as reactants in substitution reactions with alkanes.
What are halogens?
This is the type of product formed upon adding hydrogen to an alkene.
What is an alkane?
The IUPAC name of C2H2
What is ethyne?
This reaction produces ethanol as a product.
What is fermentation?
C3H6
What is propene?
This is the only functional group that will makes an organic molecule an electrolyte.
What is an organic acid?
The type of bond formed between two carbons sharing four electrons.
What is a double covalent bond?
The homologous series commonly found in crude oil and often used as fuels.
What are alkanes?
The reaction that typically uses alkanes and oxygen to produce energy.
What is combustion?
The ester produced from ethanol and butanoic acid
What is ethyl butanoate?
Proteins are made from these organic molecules, which contain two common functional groups, as indicated in their name.
What are amino acids?
The type of reaction which makes large molecules with many repeating units.
What is polymerization?