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What is the definition of organic compounds?

Answer - An organic compound is any member of a large class of gaseous, liquid, or solid chemical compounds whose molecules contain carbon.  The modern meaning of "organic compound" is any one of them that contains a significant amount of carbon.  The current main definition for organic compounds doesn't fit for carbonates, simple oxides of carbon, steel, etc. So, what should be the redefined definition for organic compounds?

Why is 2-methylpropene less in energy than its alkene counterparts?

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Answer - Now look at the below Two points for better Understanding. This is because the  s p 3 s p X 3  hybridized carbon in the alkyl group is electron donating towards the  s p 2 s p X 2 hybridized carbon in the double bond. Electron density likes to flow from low to high s-character orbitals since the more s-character in an orbital, the lower the energy of the electrons in that orbital. As the electrons flow from the  s p 3 s p X 3  carbon to the  s p 2 s p X 2  carbon the energy of the electrons (and therefore the energy of the molecule) is lowered. A "shorthand" way to illustrate this electron flow is by drawing hyperconjugated resonance structures like the following. Consequently 2-butene (where we can draw 6 hyperconjugated resonance structures) is more stable than 1-butene (where we can only draw 2 hyperconjugated resonance structures). 2) Carbanion stability decreases in the order primary > secondary > tertiary As we've just shown above,...

What is the definition of chirality?

Answer - The geometric property of a rigid object (or spatial arrangement of points or atoms) of being non-superposable on its mirror image; such an object has no symmetry elements of the second kind (a mirror plane, σ = S1, a centre of inversion, i = S2, a rotation-reflection axis, S2n). If the object is superposable on its mirror image the object is described as being achiral.