Carbon Bonding: Single, Double and Triple Bonds

Also called

carbon and its compounds · covalent bonding · tetravalency of carbon · single double triple bond · methane structure · ethene · ethyne · ethanol · benzene ring · ball and stick model · shared pair of electrons

Topics

• Carbon has four valence electrons and forms four covalent bonds (tetravalency).
• A covalent bond is a shared pair of electrons; atoms share, they do not transfer electrons.
• A double bond shares two pairs and a triple bond shares three pairs of electrons.
• Hydrogen forms one bond and neutral oxygen forms two.
• Methane is tetrahedral, ethene is flat, ethyne is linear.
• Ethanol has a two-carbon framework and a hydroxyl (-OH) group; groups can turn about single bonds.
• Benzene is a flat six-carbon ring with six equal C-C bonds; its two alternating drawings are resonance forms…

About this model

A GLB file of about 993 KB, shown in Lably's 3D viewer and, on a phone, placed in your room with AR. Credit: Atom coordinates from NCBI PubChem (CIDs 297, 6325, 6326, 702, 241); model and animation authored for Lably AR. | Newly authored Lably model (Lably project asset). Atom coordinates and bond orders: NCBI PubChem computed 3D conformers (public-domain government data, CIDs 297, 6325, 6326, 702, 241).

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