Chemistry is incomplete without learning about compounds. A compound is the combination of two or more different chemical elements that held together to form unbreakable chemical bonds. Two Categories of the Compounds: ● ●
Organic Compounds Inorganic Compounds
Read through the following to get detailed knowledge about these compounds. Let’s Explore Organic Compounds: These are the chemical compounds that are formed by carbon-hydrogen bonding. Organic compounds are extracted from living organisms like plants and animals. These compounds make up only a small percentage of Earth’s crust, but they are of great importance because every life is based on organic compounds. Some organic compounds are synthetically derived from petrochemicals like hydrocarbons, which are formed on their own from high pressure and temperature degradation of organic matter. Hydrocarbons, lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins are the four significant examples of organic molecules that can form complex structures and long-chain elements. Although organic compounds are nonpolar molecules, thus they do not dissolve well in the water of the cell, but these do dissolve in other organic compounds in nature. Such four types of organic molecules – when it comes in contact with living tissues tend to form new compounds.