Carbon has a unique propery of liniking itself to other carbon atoms to give open chain or/and cyclic structures.This property of self-linking is termed catenation.Catenation is favoured by the atoms where atom to atom covalent bond is quite strong.In carbon,C-C bond enthlpy is very large(347.3kJ/mol).So,carbon shows catenation.
Carbon atom due to its tetravalency can be bonded to two,three or four carbon atom s by forming single and multiple bonds.Therefore,chains of carbon atoms may be linear,branched or cyclic.For example,
Catenation is responsible for the existence of such a large number of organic compounds.
Carbon atom due to its tetravalency can be bonded to two,three or four carbon atom s by forming single and multiple bonds.Therefore,chains of carbon atoms may be linear,branched or cyclic.For example,
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