What is the difference between organic and inorganic compounds? Give an example of each.?

Answer 1

An organic compound is any member of a large class of chemical compounds whose molecules contain carbon and hydrogen; therefore, carbides, carbonates, carbon oxides and elementary carbon are not organic. The study of organic compounds is termed organic chemistry, and since it is a vast collection of chemicals (over half of all known chemical compounds), systems have been devised to classify organic compounds. A few of the compound classes based on the functional groups they carry are as follows:

Acid anhydrides
Acyl halides
Alcohols
Aldehydes
Alkanes
Alkenes
Amides
Amines
Aromatics
Azo compounds
Carboxylic acids
Esters
Ethers
Haloalkanes
Imines
Ketones
Nitriles
Nitro compounds
Organometallic compounds
Phenols
Polymers, including all plastics
Thiols

Many organic compounds are also of prime importance in biochemistry:

Antigens
Polysaccharides, carbohydrates and sugars
Enzymes
Hormones
Lipids and fatty acids
Neurotransmitters
Nucleic acids
Proteins, peptides and amino acids
Vitamins


An inorganic compound is a chemical compound that is not an organic compound. Inorganic compounds come principally from mineral sources of non-biological origin. The modern definition of inorganic compounds often includes all metal-containing compounds, even those found in living systems. Although most carbon compounds are classed as organic, cyanide salts, carbon oxides and carbonates are usually considered to be inorganic.

Major branches of inorganic compound groups include:

Minerals, such as salt, asbestos, silicates, ...
Metals and their alloys, like iron, copper, aluminium, brass, bronze, ...
Compounds involving non-metallic elements, like silicon, phosphorus, chlorine, oxygen, for example water
Metal complexes

Answer 2

Think about it, an organic compound is one that appears naturally in nature. To be more specific it is one that contains hydrogen and carbon. An example of this would be alcohols.

So an inorganic compound would be one that doesn't contain both hydrogen and carbon. These are usually non living things, like rocks. Any carbide would be an example of an inorganic compound

Answer 3

Organic means with carbon so anything with carbon will do and inorganic means without carbon so any compound that has no carbon it it will work look at the periodic table to help you with it.

Answer 4

organic has carbon and hydrogen inorganic do not have carbon eg of organic is like the alkanes, alkenes, C2H4 ocatne all that stuff

Answer 5

The structural unit of a protein is the fatty acid? true or false