organic chemistry
subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives
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Organic chemistry is the study of compounds that contain carbon, including hydrocarbons and substances made from them. This field matters because carbon-based compounds are the foundation of all living things and countless materials we use in everyday life, from plastics to medicines to fuels.
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Research
366,952 papers- The organic chemistry of mechanism-based enzyme inhibition: a chemical approach to drug design.Medicinal research reviews · 1984
- New methods of preparative organic chemistry V. Organic syntheses with imides of sulfur dioxide.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 1967
- Organic chemistry: molecular cross-talk.Nature · 2007
- Combinatorial chemistry.Current opinion in chemical biology · 1998
- Organic chemistry: Molecular structure assignment simplified.Nature · 2017
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Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials (i.e. matter in its various forms that contain carbon atoms). It involves studying the structure of organic material to determine the structural formula, analyzing physical and chemical properties, and evaluating chemical reactivity to understand the behavior of organic compounds. The study of organic reactions includes the chemical synthesis of natural products, drugs, and polymers, and study of individual organic molecules in the laboratory and via theoretical (in silico) study.
The range of chemicals studied in organic chemistry includes hydrocarbons (compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen) as well as compounds based on carbon, but also containing other elements, especially oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus (included in many biochemicals) and the halogens. Organometallic chemistry is the study of compounds containing carbon–metal bonds.