Thursday, May 13, 2010

Functional Groups

Today we had a quiz! Also we learnt about functional groups.

1) Halides
- Group 17 elements
-bromine(bromo), chlorine(chloro), fluorine(floro)
-you use this when you see bromine, chlorine or fluorine as a side chain to your carbon chain

2) Alcohols
- have an OH(hydroxyl) function group
-same rules as usual but change the ending to '-ol'

3) Ethers
-there is an oxygen atom between two carbon chains
-use side chain endings(-yl) for both chains followed by ether

4) Ketones
-double bonded oxygen
-change the ending to '-one'

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