List of compounds with carbon number 1
This is a partial list of molecules that contain 1 carbon atom.
C+H+O compounds
Each hydrogen added to a molecule can be considered as a proton plus a one-electron reduction of the redox state, while each oxygen counts as a two-electron oxidation. Thus a net addition of H2O is a simple hydration with no net change in redox state and frequently occurs reversibly in aqueous solution. These relationships may be viewed in the following table (peroxides and radicals are excluded; unstable or hypothetical compounds are italicized).
O0 | O1 | O2 | O3 | O4 | |
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H4 | methane | methanol | methanediol | orthoformic acid | orthocarbonic acid |
H2 | formaldehyde | formic acid | carbonic acid | ||
H0 | carbon monoxide | carbon dioxide |