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INTRODUCTION

Introduction to Organic chemistry

Organic chemistry is the branch of chemistry that studies carbon compounds present in living things, once living things or synthetic/man-made.

 Compounds that makes up living things whether alive or dead mainly contain carbon.

 Carbon is tetravalent.

 It is able to form stable covalent bonds with itself and many non-metals like hydrogen, nitrogen , Oxygen and halogens to form a variety of compounds.