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A hydrogen bond requires both a lone pair of electrons on a O, N or F atom and a hydrogen atom. In water there are two lone pairs and two hydrogen atoms, allowing the formation of two hydrogen bonds. In a...

Electronegativity is the power of an atom to attract electrons in a covalent bond towards itself. As we go down the group, electronegativity decreases because the atomic radii increases. The atomic radii ...

The product formed (hydroxybutanitrile) is optically inactive because the nitrile nucleophile can attack the propane at its carbonyl bond which is trigonal planar about it. There is an equal chance of it ...

Cyclohexene's structure is 6 carbons bonded in a ring, with a single double bond existing between carbons 1 and 6Benzene is also a 6 carbon ring, however it has a delocalised electron ring around the stru...

Ethanoic acid is the most acidic of the three. This is because once ethanoic acid has lost a proton the negative charge can be spread over two oxygen atoms via two resonance forms. Oxygen atoms are electr...