Physical organic chemistry

Physical organic chemistry

Physical organic chemistry is the study of the interrelationships between structure and reactivity in organic molecules. It a part of organic chemistry by using tools of physical chemistry such as chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, thermochemistry, and quantum chemistry.

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Physical organic chemistry

captodative effect

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

Effect on the stability of a carbon centered radical determined by the combined action of a captor (electron withdrawing) and a dative (electron releasing) substituent, both attached to the radical ...

carbanion

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

Generic name for anions containing an even number of electrons and having an unshared pair of electrons on a tervalent carbon atom (e.g. Cl 3 C - or HC≡C - ) or - if the ion is mesomeric - having ...

carbene

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

Generic name for the species H 2 C: and substitution derivatives thereof, containing an electrically neutral bivalent carbon atom with two nonbonding electrons. The nonbonding electrons may have ...

carbenium center

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

The three-coordinate carbon atom in a carbenium ion to which the excess positive charge of the ion (other than that located on heteroatoms) may be formally considered to be largely attributed, i.e., ...

carbenium ion

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

A generic name for carbocations, real or hypothetical, that have at least one important contributing structure containing a tervalent carbon atom with a vacant p-orbital. (The name implies a ...

carbenoid

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

A carbene like chemical species but with properties and reactivity differing from the free carbene itself, e.g. R 1 R 2 C(Cl)M (M = metal)

carbocation

Chemistry; Physical organic chemistry

A cation containing an even number of electrons with a significant portion of the excess positive charge located on one or more carbon atoms. This is a general term embracing carbenium ions, all ...