Hello, and welcome to the Organic Chemistry lecture series by The Science of Life. Today, I’ll be covering some basic definitions which will be necessary for the rest of the course. To begin, what is Organic chemistry? To put it simply, it is the chemistry of the compounds which contain carbon. There are some definitions which exclude the most oxidized of these compounds, such as CFC’s in old school aerosols, Teflon, and carbon dioxide, but for the purposes of this course, these severely oxidized compounds of carbon will not be considered, so for all practical purposes in this course, these two definitions incorporate the same set of compounds covered in this course. Everything in this course, though, falls under the definition of the word chemical, which are substances which, in their pure form, contain the atomic nucleus of one or more element. This means everything from glucose to fructose, from vitamin C to cyanide, from proteins to aluminum fall un...
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