Editing Halocarbon (section)

== Chemical families ==
[[File:Organohalogen-chlorides.png|thumb|300px|Examples of organohalogens-chlorides]]
Halocarbons are typically classified in the same ways as the similarly [[chemical structure|structured]] [[organic compound]]s that have [[hydrogen]] [[atom]]s occupying the [[molecular]] sites of the [[halogen]] [[atom]]s in halocarbons. Among the chemical families are:<ref name=Ullmann>M. Rossberg et al. “Chlorinated Hydrocarbons” in Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry 2006, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim. {{doi|10.1002/14356007.a06_233.pub2}}</ref>
*[[haloalkane]]s—compounds with [[carbon]] [[atom]]s linked by [[chemical bond|single bonds]]
*[[haloalkene]]s—compounds with one or more [[double bond]]s between [[carbon]] [[atom]]s
*[[haloaromatic]]s—compounds with [[carbon]]s linked in one or more [[aromatic ring]]s with a delocalised donut shaped pi cloud.
The [[halogen]] [[atom]]s in halocarbon [[molecule]]s are often called "[[substituent]]s," as though those atoms had been substituted for [[hydrogen]] atoms. However halocarbons are prepared in many ways that do not involve direct substitution of [[halogen]]s for [[hydrogen]]s.