Search results for "Orbital hybridisation" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • to popular belief, this has little to do with orbital overlap between the oxygen's lone pairs and the aromatic system. While the aromaticity ...
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  • Each carbon atom possesses a sp² orbital hybridisation. The pi orbital electrons delocalized across the hexagonal atomic sheets of carbon contribute ...
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  • Acetaldehyde, sometimes known as ethanal, is an organic chemical compound with the formula CH3CHO (or MeCHO). It is a flammable liquid with a ...
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  • electron pairs. From the perspective of molecular orbital theory, most of these electron pairs are non-bonding in character, as is typical for hypervalent ...
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  • Acetone (also known as propanone, dimethyl ketone, 2-propanone, propan-2-one and β-ketopropane) is the simplest representative of the group ...
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  • Phosgene is the chemical compound with the formula COCl2. This highly toxic gas gained infamy as a chemical weapon during World War I, but it ...
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  • back donation from the metal dxz-orbital, to the π* molecular orbital from CO. The lone pair on the carbon atom in CO, also donates electron ...
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  • Formic acid (systematic name methanoic acid) is the simplest carboxylic acid. Its formula is HCOOH or CH2O2. In nature, it is found in the stings ...
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  • Chloroform, also known as trichloromethane and methyl trichloride, is a chemical compound with the formula CHCl3. At room temperature, it is ...
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  • Uracil is one of the five main nucleobases found in the nucleic acids DNA and RNA. The others are adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine. However ...
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  • Urea is an organic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen. Its chemical formula may be written as CO(NH2)2, CON2H4, or CN2H4O. It ...
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  • The chemical compound formaldehyde (also known as methanal) is a gas with a pungent smell. It is the simplest aldehyde. Its chemical formula ...
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  • Nitric acid (chemical formula HNO3) is one of the most important inorganic acids. Eighth-century alchemists called it aqua fortis (strong water ...
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  • led to his introduction of the concept of orbital hybridization. While it ... would later be superseded by the Molecular Orbital Theory of Robert Mulliken ...
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  • Benzene (also known as benzol or [6]-annulene) is a colorless, flammable, sweet-smelling liquid. It is a natural constituent of crude oil but ...
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  • would optimize mixing between the filled p-type orbital of the oxygen (one of the lone pairs) and the LUMO of the vicinal O-H bond. ...
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  • Ethylene (or IUPAC name ethene) is a chemical compound with the formula C2H4. Each molecule contains a double bond between the two carbon atoms ...
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  • Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound that is found as a gas in the Earth's atmosphere. It consists of simple molecules, each of which has ...
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  • Ammonia is a chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, with the formula NH3. It is a gas at standard temperature and pressure In this case, ...
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