CHEM 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Drug Delivery, Sertraline, Blood Proteins

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Covalent bonds with other carbon atoms to build chains and cyclic. Covalent bonds with elements such as hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and including carbon structures halogens. Organic chemistry deals with the study of carbon containing compounds and their reactions. Organic molecules are present in living organisms and in many products used in our everyday lives (foods, household cleaning products, personal care products etc. ) Element carbon is present in the majority of drugs used today. Characteristics of carbon that lead to the formation of large number of organic compounds (over 10 million known) with very different physical and chemical properties include the ability to form: Covalent single, double and triple bonds with some other elements, Triple bond between two atoms involving 6 bonding elections instead of the usual. Among the cyclic structures, the arrangement of carbon in 5 or 6 membered rings is quite common.

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