Tuesday, 26 May 2015

organic chemistry - Why there is a huge difference between the basicity of urea and guanidine?


The two molecules have very similar structures, but urea has a $\mathrm{p}K_\mathrm{b}$ of $13.9,$ while guanidine have a $\mathrm{p}K_\mathrm{b}$ of $0.4.$ If guanidine cation can be stabilized by resonance, then why can't urea cation do so?




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