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Topics covered

• The vital force theory, its disproof by Wohler's synthesis of urea, and the modern definition of organic chemistry
• General characteristics of organic compounds, and their molecular, structural, condensed, and dot-and-cross formulae
• Classification of organic compounds into open chain, branched chain, and cyclic (homocyclic, heterocyclic, alicyclic, aromatic) compounds
• Catenation, isomerism, and multiple bonding — the reasons for the vast diversity and magnitude of organic compounds
• Sources of organic compounds — coal, petroleum, natural gas, living things, and laboratory synthesis — and their everyday uses
• Alkanes, homologous series, and the formation of alkyl radicals
• I.U.P.A.C. nomenclature rules for naming alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes up to ten carbon atoms
• Introduction to functional groups, including those containing carbon-hydrogen-oxygen, carbon-hydrogen-nitrogen, and carbon-hydrogen-halogens