CARBON

CARBON
 CARBON
Carbon is the same element present in all
living things and some nonliving things,
such as paper, coal, and diamond.
Carbon has a few unique bonding properties
- the most important of which is its ability to
form long chains of carbon
 CARBON
carbon-carbon bonds are extremely
strong.
This allows carbon to make up many of
the basic building blocks of life (fats,
sugars, etc).
carbon makes four bonds, it is able to
exist in many different forms called
 Bonding of Carbon with itself
ALLOTRO
PY
Allotropy is a behavior exhibited by
certain chemical elements: these
elements can exist in two or more
different forms, known as allotropes of
that element.
 Bonding of Carbon with itself
ALLOTRO
PY
In each different allotrope, the element's
atoms are bonded together in a different
manner.
Allotropes are different structural
modifications of an element.
 Carbon is an element that exhibits allotropy
Diamond
Graphite
 Lonsdaleite
Also called hexagonal
diamond, since it's made
of carbon and is like
diamond), is even stronger
than w-BN and 58 percent
stronger than diamond.
 Bucky balls C60
The most common
buckyball contains 60
carbon atoms and is
sometimes called C60
Bucky balls C540
Hollow spherical shape
created using
nanotechnology
Bucky balls C70
Amorphous
carbon
 Carbon
Nanotube
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)
are cylindrical large
molecules consisting of a
hexagonal arrangement of
hybridized carbon atoms.
Diamond and Graphite are the two most
common
and earliest known allotropes of carbon
 CARBON
 To reach electronic stability, carbon
atoms must share four electrons
from other atoms
 Carbon, therefore, forms four (two-
electron) bonds to other atoms,
which may be single (one shared
pair), double (two shared pairs) or
triple (three shared pairs).
 ORGANIC COMPOUND
Organic compounds are compounds that
are primarily composed of carbon
atoms, which are chemically bonded
with hydrogen and other elements such
as oxygen, sulfur, and nitrogen.
 ORGANIC COMPOUND
 Organic compounds are naturally produced by living
organisms, but can also be produced artificially.
 All these are obtained from like coal and plants and
animals and their changed remains petroleum.
 Sugars, starches, oils and proteins are examples of carbon
compound obtained from plants and animals.
 While hydrocarbons, such as hexane and benzene, are
examples of carbon compound obtained from coal and
petroleum.
 HYDROCARBONS
Hydrocarbons are a specific group of
organic compounds which contain
carbon and hydrogen only
Alkanes, Alkenes, and Alkynes are the
three basic groups of hydrocarbon
compounds
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROCARBONS