Chapter 4. Carbon and its Compounds

16 sections · about 21 pages in the Science book (jesc104.pdf). Section anchors below are the targets of the citation chips you get back from an answer.

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Carbon compounds: ball-and-stick models and the homologous series

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What to notice: Methane CH₄ has 1 carbon, 4 hydrogens — tetrahedral — four bonds 109.5° apart.

Try this: rotate methane and count the four bonds spreading out of the carbon (109.5° apart), then switch to ethene and see them flatten to 120°. Model note: this is a stick model built from standard bond lengths and angles — electron density, bond energies and any bending or stretching of the bonds are not modelled, and the benzene ring is drawn with alternating double bonds although its electrons are in fact delocalised.

counted from the model — formula: CH4, atoms: C1H4, bonds: 4 (4/0/0 single/double/triple)

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