Tertiary carbon
A tertiary carbon atom is a carbon atom bound to three other carbon atoms. For this reason, tertiary carbon atoms are found only in hydrocarbons containing at least four carbon atoms. They are called saturated hydrocarbons because they only contain carbon-carbon single bonds. Tertiary carbons have a hybridization of sp3. Tertiary carbon atoms can occur, for example, in branched alkanes, but not in linear alkanes.
| primary carbon | secondary carbon | tertiary carbon | quaternary carbon | |
| General structure (R = Organyl group) |
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| Partial Structural formula |
| tertiary Carbon |
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| Structural formula of isobutane (tertiary carbon is highlighted red) |
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