A carbene is a compound that has a carbon bonded to two atoms and a lone pair

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A carbene is a compound that has a carbon bonded to two atoms and a lone pair remaining on the carbon. Many carbenes are very reactive. 

(a) Draw the Lewis structure for the simplest carbene, H2C. 

(b) Predict the length of the carbon–carbon bond you would expect if two H2C molecules reacted with each other by a combination reaction.

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Chemistry The Central Science

ISBN: 978-0134414232

14th Edition

Authors: Theodore Brown, H. LeMay, Bruce Bursten, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Woodward, Matthew Stoltzfus

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