Back Kwaternêre koolstof Afrikaans كربون رابعي Arabic Quartäres Kohlenstoffatom German Τεταρτοταγής άνθρακας Greek کربن نوع چهارم Persian Carbone quaternaire French 사차 탄소 Korean Quartär Kohlenstoffatom NDS Quaternair koolstofatoom Dutch Carbono quaternário Portuguese
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A quaternary carbon is a carbon atom bound to four other carbon atoms.[1] For this reason, quaternary carbon atoms are found only in hydrocarbons having at least five carbon atoms. Quaternary carbon atoms can occur in branched alkanes, but not in linear alkanes.[2]
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- ^ Smith, Janice Gorzynski (2011). "Chapter 4 Alkanes". Organic chemistry (3rd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-07-337562-5. Archived from the original (Book) on 2018-06-28. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
- ^ Hans Peter Latscha, Uli Kazmaier, Helmut Alfons Klein (2016), Organische Chemie: Chemie-Basiswissen II (in German) (7. Auflage ed.), Berlin: Springer Spektrum, p. 40, ISBN 978-3-662-46180-8
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