Draw an example of a saturated four carbon compound and an unsaturated four carbon compound.

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All right. Hi everyone. So for this question, let's go ahead and classify the following drawings if they are saturated or unsaturated carbon compounds. Now here, if I scroll down, I have four different answer, choices proposing whether or not the three compounds shown are either saturated or unsaturated. So to understand this distinction, I'm going to scroll up one more time and talk about the differences between a saturated and unsaturated carbon compound. Now recall first and foremost, right, that carbon is tetravalent, which means that it prefers to have four bonds to other atoms to maintain its full octet. So because of this, we can distinguish between saturated and unsaturated compounds because carbon can form a maximum of four bonds, carbon can form four single bonds with other atoms. So because of this right, a carbon compound is said to be saturated if all carbon atoms have single bonds, because if all carbon atoms only have single bonds, then all carbon atoms have four bonds to four other atoms, right? So that's the maximum that it can, that it can create. Therefore, it is said to be saturated. Now, by contrast, carbon compounds are said to be unsaturated if not all carbon atoms have only single bonds. So this includes compounds that contain double or triple watts, right, all keys and all kinds respectively are considered to be functional groups that are unsaturated carbon compounds recall that functional groups are certain structures within a molecule that can help classify organic compounds and predict how they behave chemically. So now lets consider each of the three structures structure. One here is prop benzene because I have a benzene ring and a three carbon chain attached. Now prop benzene does in fact have double bonds between carbon atoms inside of the rink. So even though all carbon atoms have the maximum of four bonds, it is not or rather they do not all have only single bonds. So compound one here is in fact unsaturated as is carbon or structure too because structure two, that's ethene right contains one double bond between both carbons. So even though it has four bonds, it is not only via single bonds, we've got at least one double bond here. So compound two is also going to be unsaturated. Whereas compound three is a substituted cyclohexane ring in chair confirmation. No, we can see that considering the structure of the substituted cyclohexane, there are only single bonds between all carbon atoms. I don't see any double or triple bonds. So because of this right, because there are only single bonds between carbons in the third molecule. The third molecule is going to be saturated and there you have. If I consider my four answer choices, then my answer is going to be option being the multiple choice, right? Because carbons one and two were both unsaturated or compounds, one and two were unsaturated, but compound three was saturated. So with that being said, thank you so very much for watching and I hope you found this helpful.

Draw an example of a saturated four carbon compound and an unsaturated four carbon compound.

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Saturated Compounds

Unsaturated Compounds

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