Functional Groups

It is an atom or group of atoms that always reacts in a certain way

The addition of a functional group to a hydrocarbon structure does not always produces a substance with physical and chemical properties that differ from those of the parent hydrocarbon.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The arrangement in which an oxygen atom is double-bonded to a carbon atom

• carbonyl group

• carboxyl group

• hydroxyl group

• alkyl group

An oxygen-hydrogen group covalently bonded to a carbon atom

• carbonyl group

• hydroxyl group

• carboxyl group

An organic compound in which a hydroxyl group replaces a hydrogen atom of a hydrocarbon

The general structure of an amide

• RCOOR'

• RCOR’

• RNH2

• RCONH2

Which functional group has the general formula of RCOOH?

• Ether

• Amines

• Carboxylic Acid

• Ketone

It is an organic compound in which a carbonyl group located at the end of a carbon chain is bonded to a carbon atom on one side and a hydrogen atom on the other.

• Aldehydes

• Alcohol

• Esters

• Amides

_______ have the general formula RCOR’

What is the general formula of alcohol?