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Organic compounds are so called because they are associated with living things. It was thought that they could only be made in living organisms because they required some type of vital force. We now know that isn't necessarily true, they are just complex. Individual organic compounds got their names in many different ways, though we now try to name them systematically.
any chemical that could only be made by living things.
Volatile Organic Compounds are decomposed compounds. They burn to emit CO2 with could form ozone.
It is called organic compounds (made from living organisms, or used to be). It was only in the nineteenth century when organic compounds could be made in the laboratory from inorganic substances (gas, rocks, minerals, etc.)
1. Miller and Urey's organic experiments suggested how mixtures of the organic compounds necessary for life could have arisen from simpler compounds present on a primitive earth haha i found this in our textbook, miller levines textbook :PP
because it was once believed that such compounds could not be synthesized in a lab but could only be produced in living things/organisms because of some "supernatural essence" unique to themorganic compounds are very complex carbon compounds
The misleading name" organic" is a relic of the days when chemical compounds were divided into two classes, inorganic and organic, depending upon where they had come from. Inorganic compounds were those obtained from minerals; organic compounds were those obtained from vegetable or animal sources, that is, from material produced by living organisms. Indeed, until about 1850 many chemists believed that organic compounds must have their origin in living organisms, and consequently could never be synthesized from inorganic material.
Organic compounds are so called because they are associated with living things. It was thought that they could only be made in living organisms because they required some type of vital force. We now know that isn't necessarily true, they are just complex. Individual organic compounds got their names in many different ways, though we now try to name them systematically.
Originally the definition of organic compounds was those chemical compounds that could only be made by living things. However as chemists learned ways to make these compounds the definition was changed to complex carbon compounds.
Carbon-containing compounds are generally referred to as organic compounds (from the previously-held, erroneous belief that they could only be formed by living things). However, not all compounds that contain carbon are considered organic. For example, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide are considered inorganic, despite the fact that they contain carbon.
Volatile Organic Compounds are decomposed compounds. They burn to emit CO2 with could form ozone.
any chemical that could only be made by living things.
The definition of organic compounds says that it must contain carbon molecules. There is no organic compound without carbon. So, carbon is called the backbone of organic compounds.Carbon has four electrons available for bonding, and in order to become stable, it must form four covalent bonds. Therefore, it has the ability to form chains. Carbon can have multiple hybridizations and bonding options.
The Urey-Miller experiment showed that organic compounds could arise from inorganic compounds. ~VietPride
Well how loosely are we considering "types" of carbon compounds? At the most basic, you could say there are two types: organic and inorganic. Although theoritically any compound containing carbon should be considered organic, this is often not the case. You could also catogorise the following way: Organic; Inorganic compounds with other non-metals; Inorganic compounds with metals. Compounds with metals can also be split further, to include: Carbonates and bicarbonates; Carbonyls; Compounds containing the CN group; Carbides; and other miscilaneous compounds such as Bucky Balls!
It is called organic compounds (made from living organisms, or used to be). It was only in the nineteenth century when organic compounds could be made in the laboratory from inorganic substances (gas, rocks, minerals, etc.)
To prove that organic compounds could have been generated by the conditions of primeval earth