In this video, we’re going to become experts
on counting pi electrons.
Technically, a pi electron is any electron
found within an unhybridized 
p-orbital.
That's the technical definition.
However, for the purposes of this video, I
think it’s just easier if we memorize a
few different types of electrons that are
pi electrons.
That’s going to cover our bases.
We can learn that double bonds, radicals,
and cations all contribute different amounts
of electrons to pi electrons.
Double bonds and anions contribute two pi
electrons each.
Radicals contribute one pi electron.
Cations because of the fact that they’re
empty orbitals, they contribute zero electrons.
Simply the job of counting of pi electrons
is as easy as counting with your fingers,
how many electrons you see by counting up
with this method.
I’m going to have you guys do six compounds
and figure out the pi electrons for those
six.
Go ahead and start off with the first one
here and use the rule that I gave you to count
up all the pi electrons you see and then we'll
go ahead and do the answer.
