PROPERTIES OF C
FUNCTIONAL GROUPS
C & H
VOCAB
100

How many bonds carbon atoms form.

4

100

A simple OH group.

ALCOHOL

100

Name the first four parent chain prefixes.

METH, ETH, PROP, BUT

100

Same chemical formula with different bonding arrangements.

ISOMER

200

Atoms of carbon that form different bonding arrangements.

ALLOTROPES

200

A branching double bound oxygen.

KETONE

200

The suffix that is present on any carbon-carbon triple bond chain.

-YNE

200

A thoroughly single bonded ringed structure’s name.

CYCLOALKANE

300

The simplest organic compounds, made of only two elements.

HYDOCARBONS

300

A ketone that instead terminates an organic chain.

ALDEHYDE

300

C6H6

BENZENE

300

C60

BUCKMINSTERFULLERENE

400

A group of atoms that is responsible for an organic compound’s chemical properties.

FUNCTIONAL GROUP

400

Combination of an alcohol and an aldehyde.

CARBOXYLIC ACID

400

Degree of reactivity between carbon-carbon bonds.

LOW

400

This structure:

ESTER

500

A general term for a cyclic hydrocarbon in an alternating bond structure.

AROMATIC

500

Only functional group that may use either a prefix or suffix to represent itself.

AMINE

500

General formula for an alkene.

CnH2n

500

Name for any halogen based functional group chain.

ALKYL HALIDE