Remembering General Chemistry Electronic Structure and Bonding

Remembering General Chemistry Electronic Structure and Bonding 

Biographies of the scientists mentioned in this book can be found on the book s Website. 

Organic compounds are compounds that contain carbon. 

TO Stay alive, early humans must have been able to distinguish between the different kinds of materials in their world. You can hve on roots and berries, they might have said, but you can t eat dirt. You can stay warm by burning tree branches, but you can t bum rocks.  

Because chemists could not create life in the laboratory, they assumed they could not create compounds that had a vital force. Since this was their mind-set, you can imagine how surprised chemists were in 1828 when Friedrich Wohler produced urea—a compound known to be excreted by mammals—by heating ammonium cyanate, an inorganic mineral. 

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CHAPTER 1 Remembering General Chemistry Electronic Structure and Bonding... 

CHAPTER 1 Remembering General Chemistry Electronic Structure and Bonding 2 CHAPTER 2 Acids and Bases Central to Understanding Organic Chemistry 53 TUTORIAL Acids and Bases 82... 

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