Figure 6

The emergence of organic chemistry.

When the carbenium ion Lewis acid congeneric series H3C+, CH3H2C+, (CH3)2HC+, (CH3)3C+ complexes with the period 2 anionic Lewis base congeneric series H3C–, H2N–, HO–, F–, the resultant array of species consists of alkanes, amines, alkanols and alkyl fluorides.

The 4 x4 array is non-linear with respect to reaction chemistry behaviour bifurcates (forks).

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