Electron pair movement
What Electron pair movement means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definitions of Electron pair movement
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An arrow starts at a genuine electron-pair source and ends at the receiving atom or bond region.
One curly arrow represents the movement of one electron pair, not a single electron.
Topics that use Electron pair movement
- Basic concepts of organic chemistry (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Alphabetical ordering of substituents
- Aromatic compound
- carboxyl group
- Characteristic reactions
- Condensed notation with brackets and subscripts
- Contrast with heterolytic fission
- Curly arrow notation
- delocalised electrons
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