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Why do aldehydes behave like polar compounds.
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Meghna Thapar 3 years, 11 months ago

The carbonyl group is basically a polar group, that is the carbon-oxygen double bond is polarised due to higher electronegativity of oxygen relative to carbon. This is why aldehyde, containing the carbonyl as the principal functional group are polar in nature. Both aldehydes (R−CHO) and ketones(RCOR′) contain a C=O bond. Oxygen is more electronegative than carbon draws the electron density towards it which creates a slight positive charge over the less electronegative carbon atom and negative charge over the more electronegative oxygen atom. This creates a net dipole moment pointing from carbon towards oxygen and thus makes the compound polar.

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