Question

What is a carbon compound? Name the various types of carbon compound?

Answer 1

Carbon compound:

• Carbon creates a huge number of compounds with a variety of other elements; these compounds are referred to as carbon compounds. Carbon forms the basic molecule methane $\left({\mathrm{CH}}_4\right)$.
• A hydrocarbon is a chemical substance that is made up of carbon and hydrogen.

Types of carbon compounds:

Carbon compounds are divided into two categories. Acyclic and cyclic

Cyclic hydrocarbon are cyclic structures.

They are divided into two types:

• Alicyclic hydrocarbon: They contain one closed chain consisting of carbon and hydrogen only. For eg: Cyclobutane.
• Aromatic hydrocarbon: they have hexagonal ring with alternate double bond character. they are many obtained from petroleum and has aroma. eg benzene (${\mathrm{C}}_6{\mathrm{H}}_6$).

Acyclic hydrocarbon has open chain of carbon .

This is further divided into two types;

• Saturated carbon compounds
  Saturated carbon compounds have just single bonds connecting the carbon atoms in a ring or chain. Saturated chain carbon molecules are most commonly represented by alkanes. The alkane family includes ethane ${\mathrm{C}}_2{\mathrm{H}}_6$.
• Unsaturated carbon compounds
  Double or triple bonds are bonded together by various carbon atoms in a ring or chain in unsaturated carbon compounds. Alkenes and alkynes are the most well-known unsaturated carbon molecules. Carbon atoms in alkenes are connected by double bonds, while carbon atoms in alkynes are connected by triple bonds.

The classification of organic compounds in terms of a flow chart is given below: