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Carbanion
A
carbanion
is an
anion
in which
carbon
has an
unshared pair of electrons
and bears a negative charge usually with three substituents for a total of eight
valence electrons
. The carbanion exists in a
trigonal pyramidal
geometry. Formally, a carbanion is the
conjugate base
of a
carbon acid
.
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