Question

explain the nature of intermolecular forces of alkyl halide​

Answer 1

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The alkyl halides are at best only slightly soluble in water. For a halogenoalkane to dissolve in water you have to break attractions between the halogenoalkane molecules (van der Waals dispersion and dipole-dipole interactions) and break the hydrogen bonds between water molecules.

Alkyl halides are also known as haloalkanes. Alkyl halides are compounds in which one or more hydrogen atoms in an alkane have been replaced by halogen atoms (fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine). We will only look at compounds containing one halogen atom like the compounds below.

An alkyl halide can be as simple as a chloromethane, which is a common solvent previously used as a refrigerant: Chloromethane is the simplest alkyl halide. Or they can be like chloroform, which doctors used in the past to help perform surgeries: The alkyl halide chloroform.