Naming and representing the formulae of organic compounds

Question 1

What is a hydrocarbon?

Answer 1

A compound that only consists of carbon and hydrogen atoms only.
Hydrocarbons also form a series of compounds with similar structures and formulas that can be represented in a lot of different ways

Question 2

What is nomenclature?

Answer 2

It is the rules of how organic compounds should be named and how their formulas should be represented.

Question 3

What are the first 5 prefixes for carbon chains?

Answer 3

Meth- 
Eth- 
Prop-
But-
Pent-

Question 4

what is the alkene suffix?

Answer 4

-ene

Question 5

what is the alkane suffix?

Answer 5

-ane

Question 6

what is the suffix for alcohol?

Answer 6

-ol

Question 7

what is the suffix for carboxylic acid?

Answer 7

-oic acid

Question 8

what does the suffix tell you?

Answer 8

The suffix tells us the functional group present

Question 9

what is the suffix for a ketone?

Answer 9

-one

Question 10

what is the suffix for an Aldehydle?

Answer 10

-al

Question 11

what is the suffix for an ester?

Answer 11

-ate

Question 12

what is the suffix for an amine?

Answer 12

-amine

Question 13

what does the empirical formula tell us?

Answer 13

the simplest whole number ratio of atoms of each element in a compound

Question 14

what does the molecular formula tell us?

Answer 14

the actual number of atoms of each element in a compound

Question 15

What is the general formula for an alkane?

Answer 15

CnH2n + 2

Question 16

what is the general formula for an alkene?

Answer 16

CnH2n

Question 17

what is meant by the term structural formula?

Answer 17

the minimal detail that shows the arrangement of atoms in a molecule

Question 18

what is meant by the term displayed formula?

Answer 18

The relative positioning of atoms and the bonds between them.

Question 19

what is meant by the term skeletal formula ?

Answer 19

The simplified formula of a carbon skeleton

Question 20

what are the homologous series?

Answer 20

A series of organic compounds with the same functional group.
But each successive member is differing by CH2.

Question 21

What does each homologous series have?

And what does it do?

Answer 21

a functional group

it allows the molecule to be recognised

Question 22

What is the functional group responsible for?

Answer 22

The characteristic reactions for a compound

Question 23

What is an alkyl group? And what is its general formula?

Answer 23

It is a hydrocarbon chain with a general formula of CnH2n+1

Question 24

What is an aliphatic compound?

Answer 24

It is a compound containing a carbon and hydrogen joint together in a straight or branched chain or a non-aromatic ring/

Question 25

What is an alicyclic compound?

Answer 25

It is an aliphatic compound arranged in non-aromatic rings, with or without chains.

Question 26

What is an aromatic compound?

Answer 26

An aromatic compound is a compound containing a fully conjugated ring

Question 27

What is a saturated compound?

Answer 27

It is a compound that contains single carbon-carbon bonds only.

Question 28

What is an unsaturated compound?

Answer 28

A compound that contains multiple double or tripple C-C bonds and aromatic rings

Question 29

What are isomers?

Answer 29

Isomers are molecules with the same molecular formula but different arrangement of atoms within the molecule.

Question 30

What are chain isomers?

Answer 30

They have the same molecular formula but with a different arrangement of the carbon skeleton.

Question 31

What are position isomers?

Answer 31

They have the same functional group but its on a different molecule.

Question 32

What is a functional group isomer?

Answer 32

Functional group isomers have the same molecular formula but the molecules have different functional group