Questions about the Functional Groups poster

What’s on the Functional Groups poster?

A 9-row table: Group · Formula · Suffix. Priority order for naming runs roughly top to bottom. Carboxylic acid — -COOH — -oic acid; Ester — -COO- — -oate; Amide — -CONH₂ — -amide; Aldehyde — -CHO — -al; Ketone — -CO- — -one; Alcohol — -OH — -ol; Amine — -NH₂ — -amine; Alkene — C=C — -ene; Halogenoalkane — -X — halo- prefix. Naming priority matters: a molecule with both -OH and -COOH is named as the acid, with hydroxy- as a prefix.

Who is the Functional Groups poster for?

Functional Groups belongs to the Chemistry section rather than to a school year, because physical science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning organic can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Functional Groups poster?

The functional group determines the reactions. The carbon skeleton mostly does not. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Functional Groups belongs on the wall where that physical science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Functional Groups?

IUPAC Naming, Alcohols and Alkanes sit alongside Functional Groups in the Chemistry section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.IUPAC NamingAlcoholsAlkanes

Is the Functional Groups poster free to download and print?

Yes. Functional Groups downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Chemistry section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Functional Groups poster print at?

Functional Groups is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Functional Groups loses nothing.Printing guide