Phosphorus—carbon bonds elemental halogens

Carbon atoms form strong bonds not only with other carbon atoms but also with atoms of other elements. In addition to hydrogen, many carbon compounds also contain oxygen. Nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, and the halogens also frequently occur in carbon compounds. 

Organic chemistry The study of carbon-containing compounds that contain C — C or C — H bonds and sometimes a few other elements such as oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, and the halogens. 

Organic compounds Substances whose molecules contain one or more carbon atoms covalently bonded with another element (including hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, the halogens as well as phosphorus, silicon and sulfur). 

Carbon atoms form bonds readily with hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. Carbon also may combine with halogen elements (fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine), with phosphorus and sulfur, and, less often, with other elements. 

Identify the most common number of covalent bonds and lone pairs for the atoms of each of the following elements hydrogen, the halogens (group 17), oxygen, sulfur, selenium, nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon. 

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of compounds of carbon. There are several million organic compounds, 10-fold more than inorganic compounds. This occurs because carbon atoms easily bond to each other as well as to other elements, principally hydrogen, oxygen, halogen (fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine), nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus, in a variety of structural patterns. 

Carbon atoms readily form covalent bonds with other carbon atoms and with atoms of other nonmetals, especially hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur, and the halogens. Carbon atoms form these bonds by sharing pairs of electrons with atoms of other elements. When two atoms share two electrons, the bond is called a single bond (symbolized in a structural formula by a single dash - ). When four electrons are shared, the bond is called a double bond (symbolized by a double dash = ). When six electrons are shared, the bond is called a triple bond (symbolized by a triple dash <=> ). A carbon atom will... 

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