Given a chemical formula, how can you tell what types of intermolecular bonds are present?
sparklycrayons asked:
I know the definitions of the three types, but I don’t know how to read a Lewis Dot Diagram to tell if it’s dispersion, dipolar, or hydrogen bonding. Can someone help? Thanks.
I know the definitions of the three types, but I don’t know how to read a Lewis Dot Diagram to tell if it’s dispersion, dipolar, or hydrogen bonding. Can someone help? Thanks.
Hmmm..
Usually, Hydrogen bonding exists between Hydrogen and Flourine, Hydrogen and Oxygen, Hydrogen and Nitrogen. This maybe a general rule but this can’t happen all the time. Some compounds are unable to.
For Van der Waals forces, the bond exists between non polar compounds. Take note that most alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes (hydrocarbons, organic chemistry) are non polar and thus exhibit such bonds.
For dipole-dipole bonding, it exists between polar compounds.
You may need to do a Lewis’ before you proceed.