ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS

Introduced: September 1968

Classification Context

Section:: CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
Class:: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Subclass:: ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS

Description

C07C covers the synthesis, preparation, and chemical composition of acyclic (open-chain) and carbocyclic organic compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, or carbon, hydrogen, and non-metallic elements in their basic structure. This broad subclass encompasses hydrocarbons, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, and related derivatives of aliphatic and cyclic carbon skeletons. The classification explicitly excludes heterocyclic compounds (which contain atoms other than carbon in the ring structure), which are covered separately in C07D, and naturally occurring or isolated compounds typically classified elsewhere by their specific function or source.

Scope Notes

Glossary: Acyclic the absence of a ring structure. Carbocyclic the presence of a ring or ring system where all ring members are carbons. Bridged the presence of two rings that share at least three ring members. Condensed the presence of two rings that share at least one ring member, e.g., spiro and bridged are considered as condensed. Condensed ring system condensed ring systems a ring system in which all rings are condensed among themselves; the "number of rings" in a condensed ring system equals the number of scissions necessary to convert the ring system into one acyclic chain. A scission is the breaking of a bond connection between two atoms irrespective of whether the bond is single or multiple. Organic compound Organic compounds compound satisfying one of the following criteria: at least two carbon atoms bonded to each other; or one carbon atom bonded to at least one hydrogen atom or halogen atom; or one carbon atom bonded to at least one nitrogen atom by a single or double bond. Exceptions to the above criteria are: compounds consisting of only carbon atoms (e.g., fullerenes, etc.), cyanogen, cyanogen halides, cyanamide, metal carbides, phosgene, thiophosgene, hydrocyanic acid, isocyanic acid, isothiocyanic acid, fulminic acid, unsubstituted carbamic acid, and salts of the previously mentioned acids; these exceptions are considered to be inorganic compounds for classification purposes. Preparation Preparations covers synthesis, purification, separation, stabilisation or use of additives, unless a separate place is provided in the classification scheme. Quinones quinone compounds derived from compounds containing a six-membered aromatic ring or a system comprising six-membered aromatic rings (which system may be condensed or not condensed) by replacing two or four >CH groups of the six-membered aromatic rings by >C=O groups, and by removing one or two carbon-to-carbon double bonds, respectively, and rearranging the remaining carbon-to-carbon double bonds to give a ring or ring system with alternating double bonds, including the carbon-to-oxygen bonds; this means that acenaphthenequinone or camphorquinone are not considered as quinones. | Limiting references: Carbamic acid Fullerenes Phosgenes Carbides Cyanogen compounds such as hydrogen cyanide, cyanic and thiocyanic acid, isocyanic and isothiocyanic acid, cyanogen, cyanamide, and cyanogen halide Organic macromolecular compounds such as polysaccharides, rubbers, epoxy resins, styrene polymers, acrylamide polymers and the like; their preparation or chemical working-up; compositions thereof Preparation of liquid hydrocarbon mixtures of undefined composition Preparation of synthetic natural gas Preparation of soap Preparation of acyclic or carbocyclicorganic compounds using enzymes or fermentation processes Electrolytic or electrophoretic production of compounds or non-metals , , Processes for producing compounds in which electricity is simultaneously generated

Related Keywords

ALKALOIDSANTHRASTEROIDSCARBOXYLIC or salts, halides, anhydrides, derivatives or esters thereofsynthetic FATSFATTY ACIDSorganic compounds containing sulfur, selenium, or telluriumSECOSTEROIDSorganic compounds containing SULFUR

113 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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C07C 1/00 Preparation of hydrocarbons from one or more compounds, none of them being a hydrocarbon
C07C 11/00 Acyclic unsaturated hydrocarbons
C07C 13/00 Cyclic hydrocarbons containing rings other than, or in addition to, six-membered aromatic rings
C07C 15/00 Cyclic hydrocarbons containing only six-membered aromatic rings as cyclic part
C07C 17/00 Preparation of halogenated hydrocarbons
C07C 19/00 Acyclic saturated compounds containing halogen atoms
C07C 2/00 Preparation of hydrocarbons from hydrocarbons containing a smaller number of carbon atoms
C07C 201/00 Preparation of esters of nitric or nitrous acid or of compounds containing nitro or nitroso groups bound to a carbon skeleton
C07C 203/00 Esters of nitric or nitrous acid
C07C 205/00 Compounds containing nitro groups bound to a carbon skeleton
C07C 207/00 Compounds containing nitroso groups bound to a carbon skeleton
C07C 209/00 Preparation of compounds containing amino groups bound to a carbon skeleton
C07C 21/00 Acyclic unsaturated compounds containing halogen atoms
C07C 211/00 Compounds containing amino groups bound to a carbon skeleton
C07C 213/00 Preparation of compounds containing amino and hydroxy, amino and etherified hydroxy or amino and esterified hydroxy groups bound to the same carbon skeleton
C07C 215/00 Compounds containing amino and hydroxy groups bound to the same carbon skeleton
C07C 217/00 Compounds containing amino and etherified hydroxy groups bound to the same carbon skeleton
C07C 219/00 Compounds containing amino and esterified hydroxy groups bound to the same carbon skeleton
C07C 22/00 Cyclic compounds containing halogen atoms bound to an acyclic carbon atom
C07C 221/00 Preparation of compounds containing amino groups and doubly-bound oxygen atoms bound to the same carbon skeleton