Download Chemistry Honors Study Guide – Organic Chemistry You should be

Chemistry Honors Study Guide – Organic Chemistry
You should be able to:
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Name branched and straight-chain alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, and cycloalkanes
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Memorize hydrocarbon prefixes 1  10
□ Write general, molecular, structural, condensed structural, carbon skeleton, and
line-angle formulas of organic molecules
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Explain the difference between saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons
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Define isomers, and determine if structures are isomers of each other
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Describe cis v. trans isomers
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Describe the 3 types of intermolecular attractions, and identify which type hold
different molecules together
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Explain the effect of IMA strength on viscosity, bp, and state of matter
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Describe the structure of benzene, and why it is a resonance structure
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Identify these functional groups – alcohol, ester, and carboxylic acid, carbonyl,
ketone, and aldehydes- and name the functional group and the molecule class
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Name molecules containing the functional groups: esters, alcohols, and
carboxylic acids.
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Apply the solubility principle "like dissolves like"
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Compare straight-chain and branched hydrocarbons, in terms of structure,
viscosity, and boiling point
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Explain why a saturated carbon has bond angles of 109.5, and explain how the
theory of hybridization explains how this happens, and what a sp 3 hybrid orbital is
(see a complete discussion in chapter 8).