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CuriousBanker
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- Sorry, just having one of those days were things don’t make sense to me
So in this video, this cyclic ether steals a Hydrogen off HBr. That gives it a +1 formal charge, so it breaks the ring open and steals the electrons from the Carbon to alleviate the formal charge. Carbon then has a formal charge which bonds to the Bromide anion that was formed from when it donated the Hydrogen to oxygen.
So my question is...if oxygen does not want to have a +1 formal charge and therefore needs to open the ring to alleviate it, why does it steal the hydrogen in the first place? It was a neutral atom before. Also, how is the oxygen in the ether more negative than a bromide ion which has a negative formal charge, enough to steal a hydrogen from anion?
So my question is...if oxygen does not want to have a +1 formal charge and therefore needs to open the ring to alleviate it, why does it steal the hydrogen in the first place? It was a neutral atom before. Also, how is the oxygen in the ether more negative than a bromide ion which has a negative formal charge, enough to steal a hydrogen from anion?