Organic and Inorganic Compounds

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS

Came from plants and animals

carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbonates, cyanides, and bicarbonates

Organic molecules are carbon-containing substances except for _____, ______, _____, _____, AND _____.

aliphatic, aromatic, heterocyclic

3 TYPES OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS

ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS

Continuous / branched chains

(Parent chain: longest chain)

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS

Cyclic structure / benzene ring shape

HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS

Ring structure As long as there is atom aside from hydrogen and carbon

Tetravalent - 4 valence electrons

CARBON (UNIQUE CHARACTERISTIC)

INTRAMOLECULAR ATTRACTION

• Atom to atom 

• Within the molecule

IONIC BOND

Transfer electrons to reach stability (INTRA)

COVALENT BOND

• Share electrons to reach stability (INTRA)

POLAR BOND

Equal sharing

NONPOLAR BOND

unequal sharing

INTERMOLECULAR ATTRACTION

molecule to molecule

HYDROGEN BOND

• Water to water 

• Strongest bond

(INTER)

DIPOLE DIPOLE

• 2 poles (positive & negative) polar molecules

(INTER)

VANDER WAAL’S (LONDON DISPERSION)

Non-polar to non-polar (INTER)

INORGANIC COMPOUNDS

• Derived from minerals

JONS JACOB BERZSLIUS

 proposed the vital force theory

FRIEDRICH WOHLER

• showed that urea, a substance of biological origin, could be synthesized from heating the inorganic compound ammonium cyanate.

• NH4CNO -> NH2CONH2

• Biochemistry originated as a distinct field of study in the early nineteenth century, with the pioneering work.

• He proved that an organic compound could produce an organic compound. 

CARL ALEXANDER NEUBERG

• the term biochemistry was introduced

known as the father of modern biochemistry.