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  2. Orbital hybridisation - Wikipedia

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    Checked. In chemistry, orbital hybridisation (or hybridization) is the concept of mixing atomic orbitals to form new hybrid orbitals (with different energies, shapes, etc., than the component atomic orbitals) suitable for the pairing of electrons to form chemical bonds in valence bond theory. For example, in a carbon atom which forms four ...

  3. Tertiary carbon - Wikipedia

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    Tertiary carbon. A tertiary carbon atom is a carbon atom bound to three other carbon atoms. [1] For this reason, tertiary carbon atoms are found only in hydrocarbons containing at least four carbon atoms. They are called saturated hydrocarbons because they only contain carbon-carbon single bonds. [2] Tertiary carbons have a hybridization of sp3.

  4. Conjugated system - Wikipedia

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    Cinnamaldehyde is a naturally-occurring compound that has a conjugated system penta-1,3-diene is a molecule with a conjugated system Diazomethane conjugated pi-system. In theoretical chemistry, a conjugated system is a system of connected p-orbitals with delocalized electrons in a molecule, which in general lowers the overall energy of the molecule and increases stability.

  5. Alkyne - Wikipedia

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    In the language of valence bond theory, the carbon atoms in an alkyne bond are sp hybridized: they each have two unhybridized p orbitals and two sp hybrid orbitals. Overlap of an sp orbital from each atom forms one spsp sigma bond. Each p orbital on one atom overlaps one on the other atom, forming two pi bonds, giving a total of three bonds ...

  6. Carbon–carbon bond - Wikipedia

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    A carboncarbon bond is a covalent bond between two carbon atoms. [1] The most common form is the single bond: a bond composed of two electrons, one from each of the two atoms. The carboncarbon single bond is a sigma bond and is formed between one hybridized orbital from each of the carbon atoms. In ethane, the orbitals are sp 3 ...

  7. Porphyrin - Wikipedia

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    Porphyrin. Porphine, the parent porphyrin. Porphyrins (/ ˈpɔːrfərɪn / POR-fər-in) are a group of heterocyclic, macrocyclic, organic compounds, composed of four modified pyrrole subunits interconnected at their α carbon atoms via methine bridges (=CH−). In vertebrates, an essential member of the porphyrin group is heme, which is a ...

  8. Homoaromaticity - Wikipedia

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    Homoaromaticity, in organic chemistry, refers to a special case of aromaticity in which conjugation is interrupted by a single sp 3 hybridized carbon atom. Although this sp 3 center disrupts the continuous overlap of p-orbitals, traditionally thought to be a requirement for aromaticity, considerable thermodynamic stability and many of the spectroscopic, magnetic, and chemical properties ...

  9. Prochirality - Wikipedia

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    Prochirality. An sp 2 -hybridized carbon atom, with re and si faces. In stereochemistry, prochiral molecules are those that can be converted from achiral to chiral in a single step. [1][2] An achiral species which can be converted to a chiral in two steps is called proprochiral. [2]