want to learn about organic chemistry?

Question

i want to learn about organic chemistry

Answer 1

It would help if you said what your level of education is, so we can better direct you to some resources. I'm assuming you're about high-school level. In general, wikipedia is a very good place to start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_chemistry

Your local public library may have some science books, if it does then they might have an organic chemistry textbook. You could probably look on ebay--old editions of organic chemistry textbooks can be bought for less than $5. I've used the Vollhardt book myself, it's pretty readable (it was certainly better than my professor).

Lastly, many community colleges offer organic chemistry, and often for very low prices--less than $100 (for comparison a college/university course would cost you >$1000). You could always ask the instructor's permission to just sit in on such a course without even paying, they're usually pretty nice about it.

Answer 2

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon. Carbon can hold onto 4 things. Carbon can bond to itself forming chains, branched chains and rings.