Hydrocarbon Derivatives - Crash Course Chemistry #43
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The smell of cinnamon and rotting cadavers... Compounds that can remove nail polish, power a car, knock you unconscious, or make your headache go away. All of these things can be accomplished by simple organic compounds with different functional groups sticking off of them! Yes, I said functional groups! We will be talking about them a lot today. Now, when chemists started studying this stuff, they didn't always know what really made one chemical different from another. Only that certain compounds, though different, often behave similarly. Some smelled like fish, some had relatively high boiling points, some reacted in similar ways with the same compounds. Now, however, we know better! We know what they are, where they come from, and why they act the way they do. We are DEEP in th...
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The smell of cinnamon and rotting cadavers... Compounds that can remove nail polish, power a car, knock you unconscious, or make your headache go away. All of these things can be accomplished by simple organic compounds with different functional groups sticking off of them! Yes, I said functional groups! We will be talking about them a lot today. Now, when chemists started studying this stuff, they didn't always know what really made one chemical different from another. Only that certain compounds, though different, often behave similarly. Some smelled like fish, some had relatively high boiling points, some reacted in similar ways with the same compounds. Now, however, we know better! We know what they are, where they come from, and why they act the way they do. We are DEEP in th...
