Question

Ravi read the formation of covalent bonds and came to know the property of carbon. Carbon has four valence electrons. It cannot lose four electrons since very high amount of energy will be required to lose four electrons to form C4+ Carbon cannot gain four electrons to form C" ion as six protons cannot hold 10 electrons easily and there will be strong interelectronic repulsion (i) What is the atomic number and electronic configuration of carbon? (ii) Explain how covalent bonding is important between carbon compounds. Give any two suggestions

Answer 1

(i) Atomic number of Carbon is 6. Its E.C. is 2s^2p^2.
(ii) Carbon has 4 valence electron due to this property it shares its valence electron with another C atom which shows its cationation property and second reason is although it has 4 electron in outermost shell if it gain or loss e then the C atom will loss or gaint huge amount of energy which can distroy the atom so thats why C make bond wigh another C atom