CHM 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Electronegativity, Sigma Bond, Lone Pair
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Counts 1 carbon atom, an means no c=c, al says that it is an aldehyde and. The simple view of the bonding in carbon - oxygen double bonds. Where the carbon-oxygen double bond, c=o, occurs in organic compounds it is called a carbonyl group. The simplest compound containing this group is methanal. We are going to look at the bonding in methanal, but it would equally apply to any other compound containing c=o. The interesting thing is the nature of the carbon-oxygen double bond - not what it"s attached to. If you wrote it as hcoh, it looks as if it contains an -o-h group - and it doesn"t. An orbital view of the bonding in carbon - oxygen double bonds. Just as in ethene or benzene, the carbon atom is joined to three other atoms. The carbon"s electrons rearrange themselves, and promotion and hybridisation give sp2 hybrid orbitals.