Introduction to organic

chemistry
 Organic compounds
(carbon containing compounds)

Organic Chemistry:
Study of any molecule
containing carbon
 Hydrocarbons
Compounds made up of hydrogen and carbon ONLY

Example:
Petrolium products
 Functional group

When hydrogen atom replaced by a group of atoms in hydrocarbons

Functional groups
Compounds containing carboxylic group are called carboxylic acids

Formic acid- an example of carboxylic acid family

 When one hydrogen atom of a hydrocarbon is replaced by

Methyl alcohol or Ethyl alcohol or Ethanol

Methanol
Derived from carboxylic acids in which hydroxyl group
Is replaced by

Example
Example
Ketones
 Examples

Functional
groups
Examples:
Examples
 Hydrocarbon

Simplest
hydrocarbon

Alkanes
 Alkenes

Double Covalent Bond

Ethene Propene Butene

 Functional group
• Group of atoms which gives molecules
similar properties