Organic Chemistry The Chemistry of Carbon What elements

Organic Chemistry The Chemistry of Carbon

What elements are in living things? The most common elements in living things are… C, H, O, and N These four elements make up 95% of your body weight

Carbon…. Carbon is particularly important for living things because it allows for the formation of an enormous variety of organic molecules

What are ORGANIC MOLECULES? Composed Other mainly of C and H elements may be attached

Carbon Atom (atomic # 6) Bohr-Rutherford Lewis Diagram Dot Diagram

Carbon is special because… it can form four bonds this allows it to form long chains and rings

These long chains and rings serve as the “backbone” for organic molecules attached to the “backbone” are functional groups which are clusters of atoms that give the organic molecule particular properties But

Some common functional groups… Complete the table on your handout using page 25 of your textbook and build the models using the molecular model kits. Functional Group Structural Formula Ball and Stick Model hydroxyl carboxyl amino sulfhydryl phosphate You will see these functional groups in the structures of the biological molecules we will be learning about.

Macromolecules Many organic molecules in living organisms are very large containing dozens of C atoms and many functional groups these macromolecules are made up of smaller sub-units (called monomers) that are chained together

Four Major Groups of Macromolecules: Carbohydrates Lipids Proteins Nucleic Acids

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