BIOL 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Enantiomer, Covalent Bond, Vitalism

• School: Auburn University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1020
• Professor: Dr.J.W.Zanzot

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Bio notes ch 4 september 6 carbon and the molecular diversity of life. Organic chemistry is the study of compounds that contain carbon. Organic compounds range from simple molecules to colossal ones. Vitalism vs. mechanism: electron configuration is the key to an atoms characteristics, electron configuration determines the kinds and number of bonds anatomy will form with other atoms, molecular diversity arising from carbon skeleton variation. Compounds with the same molecular form but different structures and properties. Structural isomers have different covalent arrangements of their atoms. Cis-trans (geometric) isomers have the same covalent bonds but differ in spatial arrangements / or ^