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organic compound

chemical compound that contains carbon atoms (with a few exceptions traditionally classified as inorganic compounds)
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Summary

organic compound is a structural class of chemical entities[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of structural class of chemical entities entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,299 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: carbon compound[3]
  • Has use: organic reaction[4]
  • Commons category: Organic compounds[5]
  • Opposite of: inorganic compound[6], inorganic substance[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Organic compounds[8]
  • Described by source: New Encyclopedic Dictionary[9]
  • Equivalent class: http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#OrganicMolecularEntity[10], https://w3id.org/emmo#EMMO_704630b8_fee3_49b9_baca_40e2dd276370[11]
  • Studied by: organic chemistry[12]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13]
  • P14541: 2exW1a[14]

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Works and Contributions

Things named for organic compound include Organic Rankine cycle[15], a Rankine cycle[16].

Why It Matters

organic compound has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 114 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Entities named for it include Organic Rankine cycle[15], a Rankine cycle[16].

Related Entities

Marcellin Berthelot organic chemistry

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Schaum's Outline of Organic Chemistry. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . BioTop: A Biomedical Top-Domain Ontology. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Q141668297. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetreference-set:2| */ Equivalent class: http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#OrganicMolecularEntity, разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect BioTop → BioTop: A Biomedical Top-Domain Ontolog"
  2. 8d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#OrganicMolecularEntity, https://w3id.org/emmo#EMMO_704630b8_fee3_49b9_baca_40e2dd276
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: https://w3id.org/emmo#EMMO_704630b8_fee3_49b9_baca_40e2dd276370"
  3. 11d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 100
    Equivalent class → http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#OrganicMolecularEntity, https://w3id.org/emmo#EMMO_704630b8_fee3_49b9_baca_40e2dd276
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'ast', 'awa', 'az', 'azb', 'bcl', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#OrganicMolecularEntity"
  4. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2exW1a
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0008009-organicke-slouceniny
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0008009-organicke-slouceniny, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  6. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Has use → organic reaction
    Yso id → 3841, 23962, 23962
    Aliases → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||3 */ Yso id, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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