List of important Organic Compounds

Sep. 26, 2023

LIST OF IMPORTANT ORGANIC COMPOUNDS: Organic compounds are members of a large class of gaseous, liquid or solid compounds whose molecules contain carbon. Humans use organic molecules in a variety of ways, including in food, medicine, and fuel.

List of important Organic Compounds

Organic Compound	Uses of Organic Compound
Methane	Black in colour, used in making motor tyres and printing ink, production of light and energy, making methyl alcohol, formaldehyde and chloroform etc.
Butane	In its liquid state, it is used as LPG fuel.
Ethylene	It is used in fruit ripening and fruits preservation, mustard gas, and in the form of anaesthesia, in oxy-ethylene flame.
Acetylene	In producing light, oxy-ethylene flame, in the form of Marcelin anaesthesia, in making neoprene (artificial rubber), in artificial ripening etc.
Polythene	It is used for producing electrical resistance in wires and cables, in making layers in the cap of the bottle in the production of non-crackable bottles, pipes, buckets etc.
Polystyrene	Is used for the production of caps of bottles of acid, in making the body of the accumulator cells etc.
Ethyl bromine	It is for making local anaesthesia.
Chloroform	In surgical operation as anaesthesia, in form of a solvent of rubber, fat, lac etc, as insecticide etc.
Methyl alcohol	In making methylated spirit, artificial colour, varnish and polish, mixing with petrol and utilised as a fuel of engines etc.
Firmament	In making medicine of throats in making chewing tablets.
Ethyl alcohol	It is used for making wine and other alcoholic drinking stuff, tincture, varnish and polish, in the form of solvents, in methylated spirit, in artificial colours in perfumes and scent of fruits, in transparent soaps, in spirit lamps and stoves, in the form of fuel of motor vehicle in cleaning the wound, in the form of insecticide etc.
Glycerol	It is used for making nitro-glycerine, in cleaning the components of watches, in ink of stamp, in shoes polish and cosmetics, in transparent soaps, in pain reliever medicines of any fractured part of the body organs, in sweets, wine and fruits preservation etc.
Formaldehyde	In making insecticides, in fixation of gelatine film on the photographic plates, in making waterproof cloths by mixing it with eggs exterior whitely part etc.
Acetaldehyde	In making colour medicines, in manufacturing meta acetaldehyde medicine used in sleeping, in the production of plastics.
Acetone	In making varnish, cordite, clodian cellulose, artificial silk, synthetic rubber, sulphone, chloretone, chloroform, iodoform etc. as medicines etc.
Formic acid	In making insecticide, preservation of fruits juices, in trade of leather, rubber etc.
Acetic acid	As laboratory’s reagent, in the form of vinegar, in making sauces and jelly etc.
Acetyl chloride	In making acetamide, acetic anhydride etc.
Acetic anhydride	In the colour industry, in the manufacturing of medicine like aspirin, in making artificial or synthetic silk from cellulose etc. Additional resources: What is 4 '- Methylpropiophenone used for? What is (2-Bromoethyl)benzene and its common uses? What are some common types of cosmetic raw materials and their functions? Why use a styrene-acrylic polymer for concrete render? What are Benefits and Applications of Carboxymethyl Cellulose? What are the side effects of sulfuryl chloride? The Difference Between drug substances and Pharmaceutical Intermediates
Acetamide	In softening leather, cloth and in misting pulp and paper.
Ethyl acetate	In making medicines, artificial perfumes etc.
Urea	In the form of fertilizer, in making formaldehyde and urea plastic, medicines etc.
Oxalic acid	In colouration and printing cloths, in making the colour of ink and coaltar, in the bleaching of leather, in cleaning the spot of ink by its 10 % solution etc.
Glucose	In making different types of wine, in sweets and preservation of fruits juices, medicines like gluconate etc.
Benzene	In the form of solvent, in dry cleaning, by mixing it with petrol and used as fuel of engines etc.
Toluene	In the dry cleaning, in the form of solvent, in the production of medicines, in making of explosives etc.
Chloro benzene	In the manufacturing of aniline, phenol etc.
Nitro benzene	In the production of soaps in the form of mirbane oil, in making polishes etc.
Aniline	In the trade of colours, in manufacturing of drugs etc.
Phenol	In the production of carbolic soap, in the form of insecticide, in Bakelite, in predestine, aspirin, celolal etc.
Benzaldehyde	In the colour industry, in the manufacturing of perfumes etc.
Benzoic acid	In the making drugs, preservation of fruits juices etc.
Benzene Sulphonic acid	In the production of saccharin, in the production of solute colour, in making sulpha drugs etc.
Ether	As anaesthesia, solvent, coolant, in the production of alcohol etc...
Carbon-tetrachloride	In the form of a fire extinguisher.
Urotropin	In the treatment of urological diseases.
Gammexene	In the form of germicide/ insecticide

Alkanes consist of chemicals such as propane, octane and methane, which are widely used as automotive petrol and home heating/cooking fuels.

Alcohols include chemicals such as ethanol and isopropanol used as preservatives, and ethanol is a major ingredient in the beverage industry (beer/wine).

Carboxylic acids include a wide range of chemicals, including pharmaceuticals. Aspirin is one of the oldest commercially available drugs containing carboxylic acids.