A white, waxy substance, a carboxylic acid of high carbon number.
A colorless gas with a pungent odor, its solution in water is called hydrochloric acid.
The fifth member in the alkane homologous series. A colorless, combustible liquid.
colorless, odorless, lighter-than-air gas. The most common chemical element in the universe.
One of the most important esters, produced by the reaction of ethanol and acetic acid.
Chloromethane can be prepared by heating a mixture of methane and chlorine.
A biologically and practically important organic compound.
A compound ion generated when a proton is added to an ammonia molecule.
A colorless liquid, easily solved by organic solvents but not by water.
A crystalline compound found in nucleic acids, coenzymes, nucleotides and nucleosides.
The lightest halogen, a pale yellow-green, toxic gas, extremely reactive. Its best known compound is teflon.
A disaccharide formed by the joining of two alpha-D-glucose molecules.