gibbs free energy

Can someone please explain to me why B would be higher energy than C? I got this question wrong because I thought that the oxygen, being quite electronegative, would not be able to hold that positive charge very well at all and would be even higher energy than the secondary carbocation. When I...

Hey Everyone! So I have always taken for fact and not tried to understand in depth that bond breakage is endergonic and bond formation is exergonic. That has gotten me pretty far in life, but now that I'm studying for the MCAT, I'd like to understand that better. This has always confused me in...