Carbon Flashcards

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Hybridisation

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4 equivalent covalent bonds called orbital hybridisation as the electron config
Produce 3 hybrid orbitals
Electrons redistribute
Hybrid atomic orbitals contains 1e

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Carbon

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Config suggest that it has 2 unpaired e
2 covalent bonds
Simplest compound if carbon is methane

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Tetra valency of carbon

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Covalent bonds are formed
Energy is released 
More stable attain greater stability 
Carbon is tetravalent
Versatility as biological building block
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Shaped of molecules

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Hybridised carbon atom
Orbitals arrange themselves far apart from each other
Tetrahedral structure
Ring is not flat

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Cont

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Sp3 means 4 covalent bonds
Many shapes or conformation
Intermolecular interactions between functional groups
Recognition
Shape it’s substrate
Particular hormone or membrane transporters
Control and order

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Delocalisation

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Hybridises orbitals and one p orbital
Sp2 orbitals overlaps
Carbon carbon sigma bond
P orbital is able to take pi bonding

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Automaticity

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Increase stability
Aromatic 
Conjugated
Cyclic
Planar
Has 6 
Delocalised e
Ring struc
Single and double
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Summing up

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Carbon undergoes hybridisation
Electrons are promoted
On unpaired electrons

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Carbon structure

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Graphite
Diamond
Fullerene called allotropes

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Nano science

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Power devices
Sensors
Data storage

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