Your DNA, your muscles, and the scent of a flower are all just organic molecules interacting based on their shapes. Summary of Basics Carbon is the backbone and always makes 4 bonds.
Naming sounds hard, but it’s just a prefix system based on the number of carbons in a chain: (1 Carbon) - Methane Eth- (2 Carbons) - Ethane Prop- (3 Carbons) - Propane But- (4 Carbons) - Butane Organic Chemistry for DUMMIES
A big chunk of carbon atoms is just a boring frame. The "Functional Groups" are the specific clusters of atoms that actually do things. They give the molecule its personality: Your DNA, your muscles, and the scent of
Aspirin and Ibuprofen are just specific shapes of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. The "Functional Groups" are the specific clusters of
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These are "polymers"—massive, repeating chains of carbon.