New approach for assigning mean oxidation number of carbons to organonitrogen and organosulfur compounds

Abstract Organonitrogen and organosulfur compounds are abundant in the natural environment. To understand biological redox pathways properly, it is important for learners to be able count oxidation number of organic carbons. However, process counting not always easy. In addition, organonitrogen molecules seldom studied. compensate these problems, this paper explores bond-dividing method, which can effectively determine mean carbons molecules. This method uses cleavage carbon-sulfur carbon-nitrogen bonds obtain inorganic fragments. The numbers carbon atoms, nitrogen sulfur atoms calculated by molecular formulas their Furthermore, when comparing or a conversion, changes used as indicators identify positions transferred electrons.