Learning Objectives

• the origin of crude oil and its use as a source of hydrocarbon raw materials

• the grouping of hydrocarbon compounds into families (alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alcohols, carboxylic acids and non-branched esters) based upon similarities in their physical and chemical properties including general formulas, their representations (structural formulas, condensed formulas, Lewis structures), naming according to IUPAC systematic nomenclature (limited to non-cyclic compounds up to C10, and structural isomers up to C7) and uses based upon properties

• determination of empirical and molecular formulas of organic compounds from percentage composition by mass and molar mass.