Tertiary carbon

tertiary Carbon

Structural formula of isobutane (tertiary carbon is highlighted red)

A tertiary carbon atom is a carbon atom bound to three other carbon atoms.^[1] For this reason, tertiary carbon atoms are found only in hydrocarbons containing at least four carbon atoms. Tertiary carbon atoms can occur, for example, in branched alkanes, but not in linear alkanes.^[2]

	primary carbon	secondary carbon	tertiary carbon	quaternary carbon
General structure (R = Organyl group)
Partial Structural formula

References

^ Smith, Janice Gorzynski (2011). "Chapter 4 Alkanes". Organic chemistry (Book) (3rd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-07-337562-5.
^ Hans Peter Latscha, Uli Kazmaier, Helmut Alfons Klein (2016), Organische Chemie: Chemie-Basiswissen II (in German) (7. Auflage ed.), Berlin: Springer Spektrum, p. 40, ISBN 978-3-662-46180-8{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[1] Smith, Janice Gorzynski (2011). "Chapter 4 Alkanes". Organic chemistry (Book) (3rd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-07-337562-5.

[2] Hans Peter Latscha, Uli Kazmaier, Helmut Alfons Klein (2016), Organische Chemie: Chemie-Basiswissen II (in German) (7. Auflage ed.), Berlin: Springer Spektrum, p. 40, ISBN 978-3-662-46180-8{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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