what's the difference between organic and inorganic chemistry?

Question

.. and also organic and inorganic compunds?

Answer 1

organic chemistry is the chemistry of 4-valent carbon and it´s compounds. a possible exception of this rule is carbon dioxide.
inorganic chemistry is the chemistry of all other elements and their compounds

Answer 2

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon. Inorganic chemistry is the chemistry of all the other elements.

Organic compunds contain carbon, usually covalently bonded to at least one hydrogen.

Classifying organic chemistry and compounds can depend on what you're doing and why. For example, if you make a complex of six triphenylphosphine molecules around one rhodium ion, that compound has 6 x 3 x 6 = 54 carbon atoms. Yet, if you're studying the chemistry and electronic transitions of the rhodium, that's an inorganic compound, and you're doing inorganic chemistry.

Answer 3

organic chemistry has to do with molecules which have carbon atoms attached. Inorganic chemistry obviously doesn't. The same goes for compounds.

Answer 4

organic is to do with not metals, usually just carbon, hydrogen n sometimes stuff like nitrogen...organics usually to do with some sort of biological origin...

inorganics the opposite, and are usually ioninc n covalent compounds...the technical term is that inorganic doesnt contain hydrocarbon radicals...

Answer 5

In a word: carbon.

Organic chemistry is the study of organic compounds, which are compounds of carbon.

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