What Are Formal Charges? Ft. Professor Dave

In organic chemistry, it's important to be able to assign the formal charge of any atom in a particular molecule, in order to determine how these atoms may behave. Atoms can have a positive, negative, or neutral charge—let's learn how exactly to determine an atom's formal charge, and how the concepts of bonds and valences fit in with this determination.

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00:00 Intro
00:33 Valence electrons
01:28 Carbon species
02:13 Nitrogen species
02:35 Oxygen/sulfur species