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Organic Chemistry

sp3 Carbon

A sp3 hybridized carbon is a tetravalent carbon that forms four single covalent bonds with itself or atoms of other p-block elements to its right, namely Oxygen, Carbon, Nitrogen, and Halogens. It also forms a bond with elements capable of forming covalent bonds, such as hydrogen. 

The bonds formed are of equal strength and at an angle of 109.5o due to which the central carbon atom is tetrahedral in shape. Example, carbon of an alkane or an alkyl group.

 

Condensed Structural Formula- How to write

What is a Condensed Structural Formula?

The condensed structural formula provides the shortest way to understand the atoms and their numbers, their connection with respect to each other, and therefore, visualize the compounds' structure without elaborately drawing it, but by writing it in a single line.

So, if the elaborate structure of butanoic acid look like A, the condensed structural formula would look like B.