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Are carbocations necessarily sp2 hybridized and trigonal planar?
My copy of Pearson's Organic Chemistry (7e), Morrison and Boyd, under the section "Reaction intermediates", accords a succinct description on the structure of carbocations:
The central $C$-atom (of ...
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Is the phenyl cation or ethynylium more stable?
I recently gave an exam and I received an interesting question to which I believe the answer is wrong.
Given two compounds, a benzene molecule with carbocation at one of its constituting carbon atoms ...
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