Are the following graphite/carbon based materials organic or inorganic?
For example
1. Graphene,
2. Graphene Oxide
3. Reduced graphene oxide
4. Graphene quanutm dots (doped/undoped)
5. Carbon nanotubes
6. Fullerene
Dear Firoz Khan
All the carbon-based materials mention in your example are organic.
Please see other answer in researchgate for similar type of question.
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Graphene_is_Organic_or_Inorganic_material
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Gheraphene_Oxide_ORganic_or_inorganic_compound
Best regards,
Bapi
The terms are archaic, but in general, anything carbon based is considered organic.
Bapi Bera and Rakesh Sonker it is not that simple. Carbides (e.g., SiC) and CO/CO2 are considered inorganic compounds, for example. Diamond is not considered organic either. Carbon nanotubes, fullerene, graphene and graphene oxide are allotropes of carbon, such as diamond, and therefore are not considered organic either. The criterion to determine if a compound is organic or inorganic is quite obscure to me, however, we should avoid simplist definitions.
@ Rafael Furlan Oliveira - I disagree.
Allotropic forms of carbon are based on the different degree of hybridisation of the carbon atoms.
sp3 (diamond), sp2 (graphene) and sp1 (carbynes) are the three allotropic forms of carbon.
Diamond is considered an organic material.
Fullerenes are organic molecules which have strained sp2 hybrid bonding, but should be considered in the same category as graphene, as should, for example coronenes.
C70 is an organic molecule, but can be considered the shortest nanotube.
When is a molecule to big to be considered a molecule?
when carbon is in saturated state it is considered as organic while in unsaturated state it is inorganic
All the carbon-based materials cited in your example are a form of carbon, but not organic chemical compounds.
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