Organic Chemistry
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Organic Chemistry
Cannizzaro Reaction
The disproportionation of an aldehyde with no alpha hydrogen under concentrated alkali into an alcohol and a carboxylate.
Organic ChemistryCarbanion
An organic ion in which a carbon atom bears a negative charge and a lone pair.
Organic ChemistryCarbocation
An organic ion in which a carbon atom bears a positive charge and only six valence electrons.
Organic ChemistryCarboxylic Acid
A compound containing a carboxyl group, in which a carbonyl and a hydroxyl group share the same carbon.
Organic ChemistryChain Isomerism
Structural isomerism arising from different arrangements of the carbon skeleton.
Organic ChemistryChirality
The property of a molecule that makes it non-superimposable on its mirror image.
Organic ChemistryConformational Isomerism
The different spatial arrangements a molecule can adopt through rotation about single bonds.