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Chapter 4 Vocabulary
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- 1Organic ChemistryThe study of organic (carbon) compounds.
- 2HydrocarbonAn organic molecule (usually very large) consisting only of carbon and hydrogen.
- 3IsomerOne of several compounds with the same molecular formula but different structures and therefore different properties.
- 4Structural IsomerAn isomer differing only in the covalent arrangements of its atoms.
- 5Geometric IsomersAn isomer with the same covalent arrangement, yet differing in spatial arrangements due to the inflexibility of double bonds.
- 6EantiomersIsomers that are mirror images of itself.
- 7Functional GroupsA specific configuration of atoms commonly attached to the carbon skeletons of organic molecules and usually involved in chemical reactions.
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- Vocabulary from Ch. 4: Carbon and the Molecular Diversity of Life
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