Why secondary carbocation is more stable than primary carbocation?
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Tertiary carbocations are more stable than both primary and secondary carbocations, as the delocalised charge (+ve on the Carbon) is stabilised by the heavier groups. It's kind of hard to demonstrate without a diagram handy, but basically as a primary carbocation is a positive carbon centre with three H groups, (or two H's one R group) the H groups do not stabilise the charge very much, making the molecule much more unstable. Whereas the tertiary has three methyl groups stabilising the charge which makes the cation more solid. The process here is known as hyperconjugation, the process in which the pi orbitals interact to give added stability to the complex.
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Tertiary carbocations are more stable than both primary and secondary carbocations, as the delocalised charge (+ve on the Carbon) is stabilised by the heavier groups. It's kind of hard to demonstrate without a diagram handy, but basically as a primary carbocation is a positive carbon centre with three H groups, (or two H's one R group) the H groups do not stabilise the charge very much, making the molecule much more unstable. Whereas the tertiary has three methyl groups stabilising the charge which makes the cation more solid. The process here is known as hyperconjugation, the process in which the pi orbitals interact to give added stability to the complex.
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