General Chemistry 10th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1-28505-137-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-28505-137-6

Chapter 23 - Organic Chemistry - Questions and Problems - Page 1006: 23.21

Answer

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Work Step by Step

As we know that carbon will have more than four bonds in the given scenario and $CH_5$ would be the violation of octet rule.
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