CAIE A-Level Chemistry 13.3.1 Organic Carbon Skeletons
Practise classifying an organic carbon skeleton as straight-chain, branched or cyclic from structural and skeletal formulae.
- Syllabus
- 2028–2030
- Course
- Chemistry 9701
- Level
- AS
Exam points
- trace the continuous carbon framework before deciding whether a molecule is open-chain or cyclic
- classify an open chain as branched only when a carbon substituent leaves the selected continuous chain
- recognise that straight-chain and branched compounds can share a molecular formula but differ in connectivity
