A racemic mixture is a mixture of two different enantiomers, present in almost equal amounts. In a racemic mixture Dextro…
Organic Compounds
Organic and inorganic compounds are substances that differ from each other in terms of their structure, properties, and chemical reactions….
Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) is a white or light yellowish crystalline solid chemical compound that can easily dissolve in water…
Robert Sidney Cahn, Christopher Kelk Ingold, and Vladimir Prelog came up with a system of nomenclature in 1965, that assigned…
Among organic compounds, alkenes are one of the most difficult ones to name. This difficulty arises from the ‘geometrical isomers’…
Glucose, also known as dextrose is the most common simple sugar (monosaccharide). It has two isomeric structures, i.e. dextrose-(D) glucose…
Aldoses and ketoses and monosaccharides (simple sugar molecules) with differences in the type of functional groups. Aldoses are monosaccharide molecules…
Enols are alkenes with alcoholic functional groups. Enolates are the conjugate bases while enamines are the nitrogen analogs of such…
An enone is an unsaturated functional group consisting of a conjugated system of an alkene and ketonic group. Enal, on…
The compounds having a carbonyl (>C=O) group are called carbonyl compounds. In a carbonyl group, there is a double bond…