Question

Name the property of carbon due to which its forms such a verstile number of compound

Answer 1

The atomic structure of carbon allows it to form very long polymers.

This is due to 4 valence electrons

These chains are formed in different ways in different compounds

That is why carbon in life is so important and a whole branch of chemistry is dedicated to it.

The allotropes of carbon, too occurs in long chains. Allotrope with smallest no. of carbon atoms is buckminsterfullerene (with 60 atoms!)

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