HONC Rule
This is the element represented by the letter H.
What is hydrogen?
This is the word we use to describe unpleasant smells.
What is putrid?
This is the number of electrons involved in a single covalent bond.
What is 2?
This is the type of compound which has a C-H functional group.
What are alkanes?
This is the number of electrons in an octet.
What is 8?
This is the element represented by the letter N.
What is nitrogen?
This is the smell of substances which contain a carbon bonded to a nitrogen.
What is fishy?
This is what happens to electrons in a covalent bond.
What is sharing or shared?
This is the functional group which causes a fishy smell.
What is a C-N group?
This is the number of valence electrons sulfur has.
What is 6?
This is the number of bonds carbon makes.
What is 4?
This is the typical scent of ketones.
What is minty?
This is the number of electrons shared in a triple covalent bond.
What is 6?
This is the functional group that indicates a substance is an alkane.
What is C-H?
This is what we call a chemical symbol surrounded by dots to represent valence electrons.
What is a Lewis Dot structure.
This is the number of bonds nitrogen makes.
What is 3?
What is 1?
This is the reason an element might have a double bond around it.
What is to get an octet or to get 8 valence electrons.
This is the functional group which gives esters their sweet smell.
What is C-O-C=O or C O O C ?
This is what we call a sketch of how atoms are bonded to each other within the molecule.
What is a structural formula?
This is the number of bonds around a carbon atom if it has one double bond and two single bonds.
What is 4?
This is the name of the functional group that smells putrid.
What is carboxylic acid.
This is how we know a multiple bond is necessary in a compound.
What is when there aren't enough bonds around each of the elements to get octets.
This is the name of the functional group H-O-C=O
What are carboxylic acids?
This is what we call two molecules which have the same molecular formula but different structural formulas.
What are isomers?