Carbocation
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carbocation-183-9968640
title:
Carbocation
text:
A carbocation is an ion with a positively charged carbon atom. Among the simplest examples are the methenium CH+3, methanium CH+5, acylium ions RCO+, and vinyl C2H+3 cations. Until the early 1970s, carbocations were called carbonium ions. In the present-day definition given by the IUPAC, a carbocation is any even-electron cation with significant partial positive charge on a carbon atom. They are further classified in two main categories according to the coordination number of the charged carbon:
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Ion with a positively charged carbon atom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbocation
date created:
2003-06-07T17:08:40Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T23:59:19Z
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