JEE Main Chemistry question

Chemistry Organic Chemistry - Some Basic Principles and Techniques JEE Main

Number of lone pair(s) present on the carbon of the methyl carbocation, CH₃⁺, is/are .

Answer: 0

Solution

The carbocation's carbon is *sp²*-hybridised with an empty (not lone-pair-occupied) *p*-orbital; it carries no lone pair.

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