Organic Chemistry - Need help

[Deleted]

Hello fellows. I'm not the strongest in chemistry. I do know a lot about money and politics, but apparently my education forces me to have chemistry too.
Regardless I need some help, so anyone with major chemistry knowledge would be wonderful!

2 questions that are similar.

Both of the questions are mandatory and should be formulated different.

1st: Limit and present Organic Chemistry (focus point, fruit smelling esters)

2nd: Limit and present Organic Chemistry (focus point, benzoic acid)

Now my question is, how do I limit and preset the Organic chemistry around those two subjects? Be very pedagogical on your explanation, because English isn't my first language, which makes chemistry a lot harder!

---------- Post added 2012-05-31 at 07:29 PM ----------

Bump, nobody knows?

[Deleted]

No one has replied because your question doesn't make sense. What are you being asked?

---------- Post added 2012-06-01 at 02:33 PM ----------

If you're being asked about esters and benzoic acid, what exactly about them?

[Arkhias]

No one has replied because your question doesn't make sense. What are you being asked?

---------- Post added 2012-06-01 at 02:33 PM ----------

If you're being asked about esters and benzoic acid, what exactly about them?

Just reiterating what this guy said.

I've got a chemistry minor (including organic), but the questions don't make any sense to me.

[Kasierith]

In general.. with organic chemistry, you focus on the individual structures that drive exactly what it is that the compound does as one of the primary focus for basic ochem. So I guess focus on those? Its a very general question.... and one that largely depends on exactly how your professor presented ochem (I'm guessing that if you're not in a chemistry-related degree but are studying ochem, you're taking a few weeks to do an ochem overview in a gem chem class)

[Filathorn]

If I'm getting this right, you're supposed to have a presentation or something about two different [compounds? Bindings?] that you've learned in ochem; fruitsmelling esters and benzoic acids. Then you probably should start by explaining a bit about how we divide all organic stuff into different groups depending on the functional group(s), and that esters generic formula is like [insert explanation], and then talk a bit about their properties and how they react to other stuff. same with benzoic acids. Include examples and such.