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2005 Organic Chemistry Laboratory Manual.pdf

October 8, 2009 · Filed Under Chemistry · Comment  · Tags: , ,

Taken from Introduction: Organic Chemistry is a fascinating field. Think about it, of roughly 110 elements on the periodic charts, organic chemistry is a discipline that deals primarily with just one of these element: carbon. And the element is so versatile and important, that organic compounds are the largest group of compounds, far outnumbering compounds made from every other element on the periodic chart. In your study of organic chemistry, remember that you are starting on the ground floor of the chemistry of life. This is where the term of organic comes from: there was a belief that organic compounds could only come from the action of living organisms (the vitalism theory, one of the more famous failures to survive the test of time). The earliest chemists would categorize compounds into organic and other (or more appropriately inorganic). Now even though we know that organic compounds can be made from inorganic compounds synthetically, the chemistry of carbon is so closely related to metabloic processes that many of these same mechanisms and reactions are used by your body.

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