How an Organic Compound Reacts Depends on its Functional Group

5 HOW AN ORGANIC COMPOUND REACTS DEPENDS ON ITS FUNCTIONAL GROUP 

There are many millions of organic compounds (and more being made each year). If you had to memorize how each of them reacts, studying organic chemistry would not be a very pleasant experience. Fortunately, organic compounds can be divided into families, and all the members of a family react in the same way. 

The family that an organic compound belongs to is determined by its functional group. The functional group determines the kinds of reactions a compound will undergo. You are already familiar with the functional group of an alkene the carbon-carbon double bond. All compounds with a carbon-carbon double bond react in the same way, whether the 

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