Aarav Kulkarni11thSample· 2mo ago
Why is carbon tetravalent if ground state has only two unpaired electrons? Also my sigma-pi count for CH2=CH-C≡CH is off
ok so I'm making a checklist for the Organic Basic Principles chapter and I got stuck on page one, which is embarrassing. Carbon's ground state is 1s^2\,2s^2\,2p^2 , so only two unpaired electrons. Then why is it tetrava
