organic chemistry

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organic chemistry

The chemistry of carbon compounds.

organic chemistry

(Chemistry) the branch of chemistry concerned with the compounds of carbon: originally confined to compounds produced by living organisms but now extended to include man-made substances based on carbon, such as plastics. Compare inorganic chemistry

organ′ic chem′istry

the branch of chemistry dealing with the compounds of carbon.

[1870–75]

organic chemistry

The branch of chemistry that deals with carbon and carbon compounds.

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organic chemistry - the chemistry of compounds containing carbon (originally defined as the chemistry of substances produced by living organisms but now extended to substances synthesized artificially)

organism, being - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

biochemistry - the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry

chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions

phytochemistry - the branch of organic chemistry dealing with the chemistry of plants

Translations

organická chemie

organisk kemi

organische Chemie

οργανική χημεία

orgaaninen kemia

chimie organique

organska kemija

chimica organica

chemia organiczna

química orgânica

органическая химия

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It was in their undergraduate days, however, in the midst of their profoundest plunges into the mysteries of organic chemistry, that Doris Van Benschoten entered into their lives.

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I went up to my London rooms, where I spent seven weeks working out a few experiments in organic chemistry.

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Iranian University to Host 18th Seminar of Organic Chemistry

Organic chemists at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) have been working since 2007 to create an organic chemistry program that embodies the GGC vision "where learning will take place continuously in and beyond the confines of the traditional classroom (1).

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Perspectives on structure and mechanism in organic chemistry, 2d ed

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A description of Green Organic Chemistry: Tools, Strategies and Laboratory Experiments, a textbook/laboratory manual released in 2004 for the undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory, is available from this page as well.