Sunday, April 22, 2007

Carbocations

"The more highly substituted carbon atom bears the greater positive charge because it resembles the more stable carbocation."

What does this mean? Like the carbon atom with more substituents has a more positive charge??? But I thought that the substituents release electrons, thus eliminating the positive charges.

2 comments:

TheJBurger said...

(Protons²(g) - Electrons²(g))² + Neutrons(g) = Total charge of the atom (in grams)

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