Carbocations and Carbanions


Carbocations:-
                                                  Carbocation is organic molecules in several reactions particularly in nucleophilic substitution reactions, that has a carbon atom bearing a positive charge and three bonds instead of four that chemical intermediate sate carbon which has a positive charge on it and carrying six electrons in its valence shell are called carbocation. 
                            

Carbocation is classified in three types:            
1.Primary(1o) Carbocation has one carbon group attached to the carbon bearing the positive charge.
2.Secondary (2o) Carbocation has two carbons attached to the carbon bearing the positive charge.
3.Tertiary(3o) Carbocation has three carbons attached to the carbon bearing the positive charge


Stability of Carbocation:-     

(3o)>(2o)>(1o)>Methyl

The Question raises here ...why is Tertiary carbocation the most stable ?

Ans:- Because methyl groups are weakly electron donating group by inductive effects and hyper-conjugation.

Less positive charge at carbon then it will gain more stability where Methyl groups push electron density towards the electron defficient carbocation center to stabilise the positive charge. The more donating groups (like methyl group), the more the positive charge will be stabilised.

Carbanions:-

                        Carbanion is an ion containing  a negative charge on carbon atom it carries eight electrons in its valence cell. Carbanions are produced by hetrolytic cleavage of covalent bond where shared pair of electron remains with the carbon atom.
The simplest carbanion, the methide ion (CH-3 ), is derived from the organic compound methane (CH4) by a loss of a proton (hydrogen ion, H+)

Stability of Carbanions:-

 The stability of a carbanion also depends on the nature of hybridized orbitals used by the negatively charge carbon atom. A more electronegative carbon atom accomodates a negative charge in a betterways and electronegativity of the C atom depends on the nature of hybridization its uses. The primary carbanions more stable than secondary and tertiary carbanions.

More negative charge at carbon it will be less stable   
so
  Methide ion (CH-3 )>(10)>(20)> (3o)

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