Organic chemistry

This is what is on the syllabus only, but I have made more concise notes which cover all of organic chemistry in the book chapters 17 and 18

BASICS (stuff that isn’t in the syllabus but is important): Alkane – general formula CnH2n+2

Alkene – functional group: C=C bond, general formula: CnH2n

Alcohol – the OH functional group and have the general formula: CnH2n+1OH

Carboxylic acid – COOH functional group, and have the general formula: CnH2n+1COOH

Addition polymerisation – all atoms in the monomer are used to form the polymer, double bonds in molecules break in order to form a new bond

Condensation polymerisation – 2 different monomers join, double bonds are not broken, in order form the monomers to join a small molecule has to be expulsed like water or HCl

Esters are produced when carboxylic acids react with alcohols, the functional group is the ester link ( a carbon with a double bond to an oxygen and a single bond to another oxygen, I don’t think there is a general formula but if there was it would be something like this: CnH2n+1COOCtH2t+1 (note I used “t” and “n) since you can have several different combinations with one alcohol or one carboxylic acid