April 7th, 2005 |
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*raises hand*
“Yes Abdul…”
“Sir how can a bromine molecule have dipoles with it being perfectly covalent?”
“Oh finally someone asks a good question, brilliant, thank you Abdul”
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That made my day.
I derive pleasure from the simple things in life :yes:
Abdul
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eh?.. i thought bromine did not have dipoles.
um - Van der Waals bonding maybe?
no?
phooie. simple things in life my ass.
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rizvi
April 7th, 2005
It shouldnt theoretically but when reacting with say ethene… we see that it does.
Something to do with water vapour producing dipoles on the bromine.
Because when they repeated the experiment in a perfectly dry container with no water waper to be found, the bromine did not react with the Alkene.
BTW i thought you studied law…? :p
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Abdul
April 7th, 2005
yeh. law is pretty interesting too.
actually cant think of anything that isint.
anywho, i think it is an induced dipole in bromine. cuz of the pi bond in alkene. no?
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rizvi
April 7th, 2005
induced dipole due to the alkene is bullshit as my chemistry teacher told me :p
its just an explanation thats taught to a level students but isnt true….
because if it was then the bromine would react with the alkene under perfectly dry conditions too… but it doesnt.
its the water vapour that produces the dipoles on the bromine.
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Abdul
April 7th, 2005
i don’t know if you are a chem major or not.. but the oxygen from the water vapor produced the inductive effect on the bromine. ethene can’t produce the inductive effect because the carbon is not electronegative enough (not more electronegative than the bromine).
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cio cio san
May 22nd, 2006