Getting and Losing Oxygen Bonds in Organic Chemistry

The electrons needed to be moving around or going to are part of the reaction that's happening. So essentially we have our nitrogen losing its oxygen. It gains electrons from the metal catalyst and then can form into with another nitrogen. And we have oxygen that's set free when it breaks away from the nitrogen. It finds another oxygen, but if they both have a lot of electrons around them, they'll need to drop some off before they can go. So it's being oxidized, it bonds to an oxygen, so oxidized and also losing electron. Right? That's where those two concepts come together. You need the movement of electrons for bonds to be made and formed. Okay. Got

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