Organic chemistry is the branch of chemistry that studies carbon compounds. The word "organic" is a relic of the times when chemical compounds were divided into two classes: inorganic and organic, depending on their origin. Organic compounds were those obtained from living sources, such as plants and animals; It was believed that nature possessed a certain vital force and that only living things could produce organic compounds.
Organic chemistry is responsible for a very "natural" study of the organisms that develop on earth. History shows us how researchers began to apply observation methods in decomposed animals and plants, they found that, in the decomposition of these, different substances are released from which genetic information of the species in question could be extracted.
Organic Chemistry in its beginning was able to solve how to discover those components that were more primordial, however, inorganic chemistry was in turn an extensive field of research in which everything was separated in different ways. The study of the carbon atom is perhaps the most important of them, because its composition and presence in most of the elements of nature allow the study to be one of the most diverse in nature. While biology does a more generic work regarding the behavior of species and the environment that surrounds them, organic chemistry studies very in depth the covalent bonds of carbon with other elements.
Thanks to organic chemistry, it has been possible to decipher different data on the earth's matter, its age, movement, its internal behavior and much more, the combination of this data with astronomy, perhaps represents an exact and precise reference of what it is the quality and current situation of planet earth. Global warming in the microscope reveals an alteration in the covalent bonds of the structure of carbon, hydrogen and all their derivatives, time and pollution have greatly reduced the CO2 production of treesAs well as the ozone layer has been involved in drastic changes. Organic chemistry is a pillar of information and development of substances on the planet, its rise in society has allowed the manufacture of all kinds of materials such as plastics, fabrics and much more.
The classes of organic compounds are distinguished according to the functional groups they contain. These are groups that confer certain characteristic qualities on an organic molecule; among them are alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, ethers, and amines.
