When Nucleophilic Addition to a Carbonyl Group Occurs,the Carbon Attacked

question 95

Essay

When nucleophilic addition to a carbonyl group occurs,the carbon attacked undergoes this hybridization change:

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Definitions:

Light-sensitive

The characteristic of being responsive or sensitive to light, often referring to materials or biological entities that change in presence of light.

Receptor Cells

Specialized cells that convert external stimuli into electrical signals for the nervous system to process.

Opponent-process Theory

Opponent-process theory is a psychological and neurological model that describes how the perception of one stimulus (color, emotion, pain) is dependent on the opposite function of its pair.

Ewald Hering

A 19th-century German physiologist who proposed the opponent-process theory of color vision.