Organic Chemistry For Dummies Info

Naming sounds hard, but it’s just a prefix system based on the number of carbons in a chain: (1 Carbon) - Methane Eth- (2 Carbons) - Ethane Prop- (3 Carbons) - Propane But- (4 Carbons) - Butane

Change one atom, and you change a medicine into a poison. Organic Chemistry for DUMMIES

Carbon usually hangs out with Hydrogen (1 bond), Oxygen (2 bonds), and Nitrogen (3 bonds). You can remember this using the acronym HONC (1, 2, 3, 4 bonds respectively). 2. Drawing the Molecules (The Secret Code) Naming sounds hard, but it’s just a prefix