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Chemistry · Glossary

What is Class of a carbon?

Also known as: primary carbon · secondary carbon · tertiary carbon

Definition 18.7 University Chemistry — Year 1 · Chapter 18 — Electronic Effects and Reactive Intermediates

A carbon bound to one other carbon is a primary carbon, to two a secondary carbon, to three a tertiary carbon. A carbocation, a radical or a halogenoalkane takes the class of the carbon concerned.

Geometries of the three reactive intermediates of carbon (R: H or an alkyl group). The flat carbocation can be attacked on either face, a point that matters for the stereochemistry of .
Geometries of the three reactive intermediates of carbon (R: H or an alkyl group). The flat carbocation can be attacked on either face, a point that matters for the stereochemistry of Chapter 19.
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