The 5th Wave_By Rich Tennant
"I love this time oЈ year – when – the organic chemistry students start exploring new and exciting vrays tor bonding carbon atoms.*
In this part. . .
Carbon is the darling of many chemists — organic chemists in particular. The reasons for infatuation with carbon are many. Compounds based on carbon are abundant, diverse, and capable of an amazing array of chemical tricks. Organic chemists like to build structures with carbon building blocks, and then decorate those structures with a variety of other chemical characters. Biology has also found carbon compounds useful, because all life (on Earth, anyway) depends on organic chemistry. In this part, we describe some of the methods and splendors of the chemistry of carbon-based compounds.