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3: Representations of Organic Molecules

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  • 3.1: Structural Formulas - Lewis, Kekule, Bond-line, Condensed, and Perspective
    Here you will learn how to understand, write, draw, and talk-the-talk of organic molecules. Organic molecules can get complicated and large, so o-chemists have developed short hand notations to communicate structure.
  • 3.2: Isomerism Introduction
    Structural (constitutional) isomers have the same molecular formula but a different bonding arrangement among the atoms. Stereoisomers have identical molecular formulas and arrangements of atoms. They differ from each other only in the spatial orientation of groups in the molecule.
  • 3.3: Resonance
    Resonance delocalizes shared electrons over three or more atoms to lower the electron density and stabilize the compound or ion.
  • 3.4: Organic Functional Groups
    Functional groups are to organic chemistry what ions are to general chemistry.  We simply must be able to recognize and distinguish between functional grouops to learn organic chemistry.


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