Question

What are heteroatoms?
Give examples.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Heteroatom is any atom other than carbon and hydrogen. Examples: Nitrogen, sulphur, chlorine and bromine are heteroatoms. The name and formula of two organic compounds containing different heteroatoms are (i) chloromethane, CH3Cl, and (ii) formaldehyde HCHO.

Answer 2

In organic chemistry, an atom other than carbon or hydrogen. Acetamide (shown here) has two heteroatoms: one oxygen atom and one nitrogen atom. The carbon atoms and the hydrogen atoms are not heteroatoms.

Examples: Nitrogen, sulphur, chlorine and bromine are heteroatoms.

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