How to find primary, secondary and tertiary halide?
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An alcohol is distinguished in primary, secondary or tertiary depending on how many carbons are attached to the carbon bearing the hydroxile. Primary alcohols have no other carbon, secondary ones have one and tertiary alcohols have two.
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Organic chemists, with carbon chemistry as their subject, have developed all kinds of shorthand phrases to describe structures and phenomena that might otherwise take a sentence of two to explain. Here’s today’s example: the terminology of carbon-containing functional groups: primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary.
- Primary carbons, are carbons attached to one other carbon. (Hydrogens – although usually 3 in number in this case – are ignored in this terminology, as we shall see).
- Secondary carbons are attached to two other carbons.
- Tertiary carbons are attached to three other carbons.
- Finally, quaternary carbons are attached to four other carbons.
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