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Organic compounds are those chemical compounds which contain carbon molecules in its composition. Organic chemistry is a different branch of chemistry which deals with organic i.e. carbon containing compounds. However, there are few carbonates, allotropes of carbon and cyanides which neither comes under organic compounds nor inorganic compounds. |
There is no such official definition of an organic compound, but different sources define a compound with slight difference. Some definitions say that C-H bond are called organic compounds, while other says C-C bonds are organic compounds. Most of the sources agree that carbon is the main element and its presence turns the compounds organic in nature. However, the variation in definitions of organic compound does not alter any changes in its examples and every book has same examples.
Metal carbonates and carbonyls, simple carbon halides and sulfides and simple oxides of carbon and cyanides are examples of organic compounds. Some of the other examples of organic compounds are alkanes including methane, ethane, propane, butane, pentane, hexane, heptanes, octane, nonane and decane. Cycloalkanes such as cyclopropane, cyclobutane, cyclopentane, cyclohexane and cycloheptane are also organic compounds.
Some more examples of organic compounds are acid anhydrides, acyl halides, alcohols, aldehydes, alkenes, amides, amines, aromatics, azo compounds, carboxylic acids, esters, ethers, haloalkenes, imines, ketones, nitriles, nitro compounds, organometallic compounds, phenols, polymers, thiols, urea, valium, vitamins, warfarin, xylene, xylose, zingiberene.
The carbon containing compounds are very useful for the growth of humankind. Many of the organic compounds are being used in daily lives of people, and life without it would perhaps not possible.
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