How will you account for the presence of large number of organic compounds ?

(b) Why are there very large number of organic compounds ?

The presence of carbon in an organic compound can be shown by

What precaution would you take to detect the presence of a halogen in an organic compound by Lassaigne's test if the compound contains nitrogen or sulphur also ?

How will you account for the acidic character of acetylene?

Knowing the electron gain enthalpy values for O rarr O^(Ө) and O rarr O^(2-) as - 141 kJ mol^-1 and + 702 kJ mol^-1 respectively, how can you account for the formation of a large number of oxides having O^(2-) species and not O^(Ө) ?

Carbon forms a large number of compounds due to :

How would you detect the presence of carbon and hydrogen in a compound ?

How will you detect the presence of a carboxylic acid ?