Lesson 5 · about 20 minutes

Functional groups

The small parts that make vinegar sour and bananas smell sweet.

You will learn

  • What a functional group is
  • Alcohols, carboxylic acids, aldehydes, ketones, amines and esters
  • How one small group changes the way a molecule behaves

Sections

  1. Groups give personality
  2. Alcohols
  3. Acids and the C=O family
  4. Amines and amino acids
  5. Esters smell sweet
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