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What do the functional groups determine?

Answer 1

In chemistry, you can see a certain grouping of atoms together and you would be able to predict its reactivity. Similarly, you can tell what an apple will taste like just by looking at it. This is also true of functional groups, which are like families.

For instance, this is an alkene with C=C, and I can already tell that it will react with HBr.

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Answer 2

Delilah Anderson

Functional groups determine the chemical and physical properties of organic compounds, including their reactivity, polarity, boiling point, solubility, and acidity/basicity.

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When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.