Why organic chemistry treated as a seperate branch of chemistry?
Organic chemistry is the name given to the chemistry of Carbon compounds, many of which have an organic source. Because the Carbon atoms can hybridize into so many forms and still covalently bond to each other and to many other elements, the number of Organic compounds is vast. The system of Nomenclature (naming of compounds) is complicated by the formation of multiple bonds, rings, hetero-cyclic and other molecules. A single molecular formula can often lead to a great number of different chemical compounds. The various reactions are almost always due to the structure of the non-carbon atoms in the organic molecules. These also change the nature of the carbon-carbon bonds in terms of reactivity. A good sense of visualization of the structure of the reacting molecules is very helpful. This is not as necessary in most other fields of chemistry (except Biochemistry, which is a branch of Organic). One further complication is that many of the reactions studied are named for the chemist or g
