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How was the variety organic compounds be different if carbon had seven electrons in the outermost energy level instead of four

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The variety of compounds would decrease, since four violence charge give carbon the possibility to form single bond, double bond and triple bond. Where as a atom with 7 violence charge can only form single bonds.
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