Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Why would the hydrogens attached to the carbons in an ether and amine not be able to be hydrogen bond donors? (The small difference in electronegativity between C and H leads to the low polarity of the C-H bond, which leads to a very small positive charge on H, so it does not interact with the lone electron pair of the H-bond acceptor efficiently. - GS).

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