Q3-8-Pc

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Identify the carbon atoms in the following molecules as primary, secondary, tertiary, or quaternary:

C)



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c)



1Primary, secondary, and tertiary carbon atoms

 

Primary carbons are situated at the end. Secondary carbon atoms are situated in the middle of two carbon atoms. Tertiary carbon atoms are branched in three various ways.

2Identification of the carbon atoms as primary, secondary, tertiary, or quarternary


(c) The primary, secondary, and tertiary atoms in the compound are denoted as p, s and t. It is shown below:



Different atoms of compound (c)