Why their is no quadruple ( four ) covalent bonds is not formed between two atom?
Follow me
Fastest will be brainliest..
Answers
Answered by
0
The reason a carbon atom cannot bond with four electrons with another carbon is due to the carbon electron orbitals. Since it has a s and 3 p orbitals, it must create one sigma and at most 2 pi bonds with another carbon. ... Hence, you'll have to bond them with another atom.
Answered by
0
Answer:
Unfortunately, an answer to this requires a quick dip into orbital theory. You may have heard of s, p and d orbitals; carbon as a main group element of group 14 has the electronic configuration of [He]2s22p2, meaning two of its electrons are in an s orbital and two in p orbitals in its atomic ground state. The process by which these orbitals form bonds is simply overlap: If you have two orbitals that can be moved together and these two orbitals overlap, you generate a bonding and an antibonding orbital from these two. (This is a mathematical operation known as linear combination; plugging two orbitals into a linear combination means that exactly two orbitals are mathematically required to come out of the linear combination.)
Similar questions