Organic Chemistry Terms Starting with F
Definitions of 23 organic chemistry terms that start with F, such as Fats, Fatty Acids, Fibers. Plain-language explanations linked to reactions and reagents.
Terms starting with F
- Fats: Lipids commonly made from glycerol and fatty acids.
- Fatty Acids: Long hydrocarbon chains ending in a carboxylic acid.
- Fibers: Materials made from long, thin polymer structures.
- Fibrous Proteins: Long structural proteins such as collagen and keratin.
- Fingerprint Region: Complex IR region that can help identify a specific compound.
- First Order: Reaction rate depends on the first power of one concentration term overall.
- Fischer Esterification: Carboxylic acid + alcohol ⇌ ester + water under acid catalysis.
- Fischer Projection: Flat drawing used to show stereochemistry, especially sugars and amino acids.
- Fishhook Arrow: Half-headed curved arrow showing movement of one electron.
- Flagpole Interactions: Steric repulsion between atoms/groups in boat cyclohexane.
- Formal Charge: Bookkeeping charge assigned to an atom based on its bonds and lone-pair electrons.
- FT-NMR: Modern NMR technique using a pulse and Fourier transform to obtain the spectrum.
- Fragmentation: Breaking molecular ions into smaller pieces in mass spectrometry.
- Free Induction Decay: Time-domain signal recorded by an NMR instrument before Fourier transformation.
- Freons: Older refrigerants, commonly chlorofluorocarbon compounds.
- Frequency: Number of wave cycles per second, measured in Hz.
- Friedel–Crafts Acylation: Adds an acyl group to an aromatic ring.
- Friedel–Crafts Alkylation: Adds an alkyl group to an aromatic ring.
- Frontier Orbital Theory: Explains reactions mainly through interactions between important occupied and empty orbitals.
- Frontier Orbitals: Usually the HOMO and LUMO involved most strongly in reactions.
- Frost Circles: Shortcut for predicting π molecular orbital energies of cyclic conjugated systems.
- Functional Group: Specific group of atoms that gives a molecule characteristic reactions.
- Furanose: Five-membered cyclic form of a sugar.
Open a term starting with F
- Fats
- Fatty Acids
- Fibers
- Fibrous Proteins
- Fingerprint Region
- First Order
- Fischer Esterification
- Fischer Projection
- Fishhook Arrow
- Flagpole Interactions
- Formal Charge
- FT-NMR
- Fragmentation
- Free Induction Decay
- Freons
- Frequency
- Friedel–Crafts Acylation
- Friedel–Crafts Alkylation
- Frontier Orbital Theory
- Frontier Orbitals
- Frost Circles
- Functional Group
- Furanose