Question

Carbon has 4 electrons in its valence shell what type of compounds can be formed by carbon why

Answer 1

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❤CARBON FORMS ➡COVALENT BONDS.

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It has 4 valence electrons due to which it shares electrons instead of transferring as it would require a lot of energy to do that.

Answer 2

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◼Carbon is a non metal compound which lies in period 2 and group 14 of Modern periodic table. So, by convet it has

◼ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION = 2,4.

◼VALENCY = 4

So to be stable like nearest noble gas neon it needs 4 more electrons.

◼Metals are undergoes reduction in which they loses electrons to form electrovalent bonds but metals only have valency upto +3 .So if they would have losed electron to carbon ,the bonds of carbon will be incomplete.

While bonds of carbon can be completed by sharing of 4 electrons by other metals. Since, sharing of electrons is called covalent bond.Therefore , carbon only forms covalent bonds to be stable like neon.