In 1975, the 20-year-old Jobs and Wozniak set up shop in Jobs' parents' garage, dubbed the venture Apple, and began working on the prototype of the Apple I. To generate the $1,350 in capital they used to start Apple, Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen microbus, and Steve Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard calculator.
carboxyl group. in organic chemistry, group of atoms within a molecule that is responsible for certain properties of the molecule and reactions in which it takes part. Organic compounds are frequently classified according to the functional group or groups they contain.
With two oxygen atoms in this functional group, organic molecules containing carboxyl groups are often highly polar and reactive, although size and other functional groups present in an organic molecule are important in determining polarity and solubility.arboxyls. Although it may be confusing, carbonyl and carboxyl functional groups (RâCOOH) have similar names for a reason. A carboxyl group contains both a carbonyl group and a hydroxyl group, bonded to the same carbon atom. The name carboxyl derives from combining these two terms, carbonyl + hydroxyl = carboxyl.