Re: tojc
Jolene (schmidjm@PLU.edu)
Wed, 25 Sep 1996 10:45:53 -0800 (PST)
I think it meant that the carbon closest to the flourine was more
positive. Because the flourine pulls the shared electrons away from the
carbon, the flourine is more negative and the carbon is more positive.
The second carbon is slightly positive as well (because of the inductive
effects of the flourine), but it is not as positive as the first carbon
because it is farther away from the flourine.
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 farrisrw@PLU.edu wrote:
>
> Reading my text I became confused at the bottom of page 104 where it is
> dealing with inductive effects. It has a little diagram that shows the
> flourine end of the structure as being more negative, and then right
> below it a statement is made to the effect of the flourine end of the
> bond as being more positive. WHat?
> A little help here.
> Reid
>