Purchase Solution

Chemistry: Double Bonds, Carbon Nitrogen Triple Bonds

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Explain why only certain elements can form double bonds to themselves. Why can only C and N form triple bonds to themselves?

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

The response discusses how certain elements can only form bonds to themselves.

Solution Preview

This can be explained on the basis of valence bond theory and molecular orbital theory. The number of bonds formed by each element depends upon the number of outermost electrons ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
General Chemistry - Classification of Matter

This test will assess your knowledge on the classification of matter which includes elements, compounds and mixtures.

Periodic table

Match Elements with their Symbols

Elements are provided: choose the matching one- or two-letter symbol for each element.

Functional groups in Organic Chemistry

You will be tested on the names of functional groups in Organic Chemistry. It is very important to know the functional groups to understand Organic reactions.

Organic Chemistry Naming: Alkanes

This is a quiz which is designed to assist students with learning the nomenclature used to identify organic compounds. This quiz focuses on the organic compounds called Alkanes.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Reactiveness of a Stable Molecule

    Consequently, two nitrogen atoms forming a molecule arrange to share three of their outer electrons, giving the molecule a triple bond instead of the more common double bond.

  • Characteristics of Single, Double and Triple Bonds

    Explains the characteristics of single bonds, double bonds and triple bonds.

  • Determination of unshared electron pairs in organic molecule

    d) Nitrogen CH3CH2CN. e) Carbon CH3+ Only those electrons in an atoms outer most shell are involved in molecular bonds and counted as unshared. Hydrogen has one electron in an 1s orbital.

  • Why is one kind of atom, carbon, so important in biology

    145298 Why is one kind of atom, carbon, so important in biology? Why is the element carbon so important to biology and why does its chemistry allow for the complicated chemistry involved in living systems.

  • The Lewis Octet Rule

    Therefore, since carbon atoms have 4 electrons in their outer shell, they will tend to form compounds where they end up with 4 more electrons, thus forming (for example) 4 single bonds, 2 double bonds, or 1 triple bond and 1 single bond.

  • Cycloalkanes, Isomers, and Organic Compounds

    Acetylene has a triple carbon-carbon bond whereas ethylene has a double carbon-carbon bond. Acetylene is an alkyne while ethylene is an alkene. One chemical difference is the acidity of alkynes compared to alkenes.

  • Decolorize bromine in carbon tetrachloride

    One important test for alkenes and alkynes is the bromine test in carbon tetrachloride. Most organic compounds with at lease one double or triple bond will give a positive test (i.e. decolorize the bromine).

  • Explanation of the formal charge of all atoms of OCN

    In the same way we find for carbon and nitrogen: C: free atom (4 valence electrons) compared with 4 electrons of the bondings gives a formal charge of 0 (zero) N: free atom (5 valence electrons) compared with 6 electrons of the lone pairs plus

  • Determining the absence of the organic compound C3H10

    To form the compound C3H10, all the carbon atoms must be linked together in some way, involving single, double or triple bonds. Which of these bonds between carbon atoms leaves the most number of possible bonds available for H atoms?

View More Related Solutions