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State the reason why carbon can neither form c^4+ cations nor c^4- anions but forms covalent compound

Posted by Vinay. L 2 years, 8 months ago

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Abhay Rana 2 years, 8 months ago

Because carbon is tetravalent and carbon have catenation

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Abhishek Daive 2 years, 8 months ago

Carbon has 4 valence electron in it outermost shell to obtain noble gas configration it has to loss or gain 4 electron but it is not possible to hold 4 electron and loose 4 electron as it require lot of energy . So to obtain noble gas configration it form covalent bond and can neither form ....

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Lakshay Takkar 2 years, 8 months ago

As carbon is tetravalent

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Krishna Chaudhary 2 years, 8 months ago

Due to unstability of neutron and size of carbon is very small it cannot gain 4e and become c4+ while require lot of energy to donate 4e- and become c4-

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