Organic chemistry is a fascinating field. Think about it, of roughly 110 element on the periodic chart, organic chemistry is a discipline that deals primarily with just one of these element: carbon. And that element is so versatile and important, that organic compounds are the largest group of compunds, far outnumbering compounds made from every other element on the periodic chart. In your study of organic chemistry, remember that you are starting on the ground floor of the chemistry of life. This is where the term “organic” comes from; there was a belief that organic compounds could only come from the action of living organisms (the “vitaism theory.” One of the more famous failures to survive the test of time). The earliest chemist would categorize compounds into “organic” and “other” (or, more approriately, “inorganic”). Now, even though we know that organic compounds can be made from inorganic compounds synhetically, the chemistry of carbon is so closely related to metabolic processes that many of these same mechanism and reactions are used by your body….

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