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Why does corban not form ionic compound?

Posted by Krishna Gupta 5 years, 2 months ago

CBSE > Class 10 > Science

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Vaishu ? 5 years, 2 months ago

Simple reason is it valency is 4. So it requires more energy to donate or take electrons which it can't afford.

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Varun Kumar Barnwal 5 years, 2 months ago

The ionic compound can only perform by donating and gaining of electrons but the carbon (first tetravalent compound in Periodic table) has not sufficient proton (p^+ = 4 ) to stable the 8 electrons( gain 4 and complete octate) and it cannot donate also because it has 4 electrons to donate but due to high intermolecular force it cannot. So it only form covalent compounds by sharing electrons.

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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 2 months ago

The electronic configuration of carbon atom is 1s² 2s² 2px¹ 2py¹ and has four valence electrons. In order to form ionic compound, it has to either lose four electrons or gain four electrons. Since very high energy are involved in doing so. Carbon does not form ionic compounds. It completes its octet by sharing of electrons and forms covalent compounds.

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