what does organic mean in chemistry?? also give me the website you found the definitions at...thanks!!?

Answer 1

"Organic chemistry is a specific discipline within chemistry which involves the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation (by synthesis or by other means) of chemical compounds consisting of primarily carbon and hydrogen, which may contain any number of other elements, including nitrogen, oxygen, halogens as well as phosphorus, silicon and sulfur."

First line of wikipedia article, has 2 sources which can be found at the bottom of the wikipedia page.

In very simple terms Organic Chemistry is the kind that is involved mostly with carbon and hydrogen, and also nitrogen, oxygen and handful of other elements.

Answer 2

I'm not sure what website you can find the definition at, but I am currently in a second semester of organic chemistry in college.

organic chemistry is called so because the basis for it is in all life. It revolves around hydrocarbons and derivatives. A hydrocarbon is a molecule that has C (Carbon) and H (hydrogen) molecules. Each C has four bonds. Unless something occupies that bond, each bond is filled with H. So the basic organic molecule, methane, is CH4. Each hydrocarbon's base involves a # of C and 2*# + 2 of H. For example, propane (another common hydrocarbon) is C3H8. 3 C and 2*3 + 2 H.

Hope that helps

Answer 3

i don't really remember the full basis of organic chemistry, but organic usually involves carbon compounds, in some process, because carbon exists in every life form and beyond too, i'm sorry this isn't informative at all, maybe the other people have a better explanation for this?

Answer 4

Organicchemistry is the chemistry of carbon. Until 1828, it was thought to be the chemistry of living things. In particular, people thought that there was a certain "life force" that enabled living things to make organic compounds. Without the life force, they thought, organic compounds could not be made. Then, in 1828, Friedrich Woehler, a chemist in Germany, heated an inorganic salt called ammonium cyanate. The product was urea, a product of mammalian nitrogen metabolism. It's excreted in mammalian urine. From then on the "vital force" theory was dead.

Today, we get carbon from coal, oil, natural gas, and yes! plants and animals. And we make jillions of organicchemicals from them, all of them based on human ingenuity and not on a vital force.

In your further education, you should not be insisting always on a website. Web sites are often wrong. And true education comes from the passing of knowledge from people who know and have experience to those who have yet to learn. I learned these things at the University of Illinois when I studied there, beginning in 1954.

Answer 5

Organic chemistry deals with carbon compounds, specifically those found in living things, or which are similar to those carbon compounds found in living things.

This oughta be in your textbook, though Wikipedia is a reasonably good source.

Answer 6

Try searching on the phrase

organic chemistry definition

Answer 7

Organic means dealing with carbon compounds. And when I learned that, they didn't HAVE web sites!