Organic Chemistry

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This paper discusses the differences between organic and inorganic chemistry and provides a brief insight into organic chemistry and the family of the hydrocarbons. It looks at how the salient point to remember in the formation of compounds (everything else flows from there) that drives chemical processes is the need to complete the valence or the atomic shell of each element?s inherent instability. It shows how inorganic and organic chemistry are the results of variable approaches to solving the instability and how this then results in the formation of the stable compounds that the world we live in and the universe at large need to survive.

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"The arrangement of the four electrons around the carbon lend it a tetrahedral (equal on four sides in three dimensions) geometry. The simplest organic compound is methane (inflammable gas found in sewers and coal mines) where a single carbon atom is covalently linked to four hydrogen atoms. In this way, each hydrogen atom can claim two electrons needed to complete its shell (its own and one from carbon). The four carbon electrons and one each from the four hydrogen atoms complete its shell of eight. If one considers a chain of carbon atoms linked together carbon to carbon (C-C) with associated carbon to hydrogen (C-H) bonds, an organic molecule is formed. These compounds are straight chains, rings, or chains with cross- links and branches."

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