Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > > I agree with you. "Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon > compounds." Though usually with the omission of most metal > carbonates, the chemistry of which is usually covered in the section > on inorganic chemistry. That's how *I* teach it in colleges, > anyway. ;) > I think that a more accurate definition is that Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds where carbon has a covalent bond with hydrogen, or to a replacement of hydrogen.
This would include, frex, tetrachloromethane, but not carbon disulfide. Alberto 'definitions are evil, why they must be eradicated' Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
