Dr.Felix Strausser
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Bond energy and Hybridisation
I was going through some reference material and came across something confusing.
According to it;
Bond length decreases with increase in s-character, since the s-orbital is smaller than the p-orbital.
Shorter the bond length, the greater the bond energy/strength.
I was pretty fine with those, as it didn't conflict with anything I came across earlier [as a matter of fact, it supports it], but what came up later
utterly confused me.....
Bond energy increases in the following order:
s<p<sp<sp2<sp3
But this completely contradicts the earlier two points, according to which the bond energy should have increased as:
p<sp3<sp2<sp<s
Have they printed it wrong or is there something I've overlooked about this?
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The more s-character in the bond, the shorter and stronger the bond. I'm not sure what they printed "for the following order"...was there more than
just the one letter?
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Quote: Originally posted by Dr.Felix Strausser  | I was going through some reference material and came across something confusing.
According to it;
Bond length decreases with increase in s-character, since the s-orbital is smaller than the p-orbital.
Shorter the bond length, the greater the bond energy/strength.
I was pretty fine with those, as it didn't conflict with anything I came across earlier [as a matter of fact, it supports it], but what came up later
utterly confused me.....
Bond energy increases in the following order:
s < p < sp < sp2 < sp3
But this completely contradicts the earlier two points, according to which the bond energy should have increased as:
p < sp3 < sp2 < sp < s
Have they printed it wrong or is there something I've overlooked about this? |
I've edited your post a bit: the angular brackets were fouling it.
[Edited on 2-9-2015 by blogfast25]
But these bonds should be called σ bonds: for example σ<sub>ss</sub>, σ<sub>pp</sub>,
σ<sub>sp</sub>, σ<sub>sp2</sub> etc...
[Edited on 2-9-2015 by blogfast25]
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aga
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How is σ pronounced please.
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blogfast25
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"sigma".
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aga
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Lower case Sigma.
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[Edited on 2-9-2015 by aga]
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