Chemistry A-Level
Skeletal formulae
What Skeletal formulae means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Skeletal formulae
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A simplified organic formula shown by removing hydrogen atoms from alkyl chains, leaving just a carbon skeleton and associated functional groups.
Topics that use Skeletal formulae
- Basic concepts of organic chemistry (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Alphabetical ordering of substituents
- Aromatic compound
- carboxyl group
- Characteristic reactions
- Condensed notation with brackets and subscripts
- Contrast with heterolytic fission
- Curly arrow notation
- delocalised electrons
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