I also have a wonderful girlfriend named Stephanie. In this page I hope to enlighten the reader in the area of Organic chemistry. This page is based on Gillespie's chapters 8 and 14. Organic chemistry is the study of all carbon compounds found on the planet. A carbon-carbon bond is the second strongest bond there is.
Alkanes are a group of hydrocarbons that contain single bonds between the carbon atoms.
Nomenclature Nomenclature is the process of naming organic compounds. In naming a compound it is important to look first at the length of the carbon chain. The prefixes dictate the number of carbon atoms the compound will contain. Substituent groups are additional groups of carbon atoms that are branched off of the main chain, and can be found by the numbers in front of the compounds name. For example 2,3 Dimethylpentane has substituent groups off of it's second and third carbon atoms.