https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.C00806
The electrically neutral species H2C: and its derivatives, in which the carbon is covalently bonded to two univalent groups of any kind or a divalent group and bears two nonbonding electrons, which may be spin-paired (@[email protected]) or spin-non-paired (@[email protected]). In @[email protected] formation, carbene is the name of the @[email protected] :CH2 hence, the name dichlorocarbene for :CCl2. However, names for acyclic and cyclic @[email protected] containing one or more divalent carbon atoms are derived from the name of the corresponding all-\(\lambda ^{4}\)-hydrocarbon using the suffix -ylidene. E.g. prop-2-en-1-ylidene, H2C=CHCH: ethenylidene, H2C=C:; cyclohexylidene,
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Subclasses of carbenes include @[email protected] C00806-2.png, @[email protected], C00806-3.png and @[email protected]