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Title: Dipole Moment
Post by: prasannab13 on August 07, 2008, 09:30:37 AM: Arrange the following compounds in increasing order of their dipole moment:

CCl4 , CHCl3 , CH2Cl2 , CH3Cl .

PLEASE
Title: Re: Dipole Moment
Post by: macman104 on August 07, 2008, 11:21:15 AM: Can you draw the line/wedge structure of these? If not google.

Which way is the dipole bond in the C-Cl bond?
Title: Re: Dipole Moment
Post by: Ak on August 07, 2008, 01:48:21 PM: Cl is more electronegative then C, so there is some polarity...but in some of the molecules listed the polarites cancel out, giving lower dipole moments or even no dipole moments...i.e. CCl4
Title: Re: Dipole Moment
Post by: alexanderdundua on August 07, 2008, 06:58:31 PM: As "AK" said, CCl₄ has no dipole moment
In other cases, the vectorial sum of dipole moments of three C-Cl bonds seems like to be more, than the same sum for two C-Cl bonds, and each of them ought to be more than one single vector.
(Not taking into account possible influence of Cl atoms on each other. Hope it doesn't have any significant effect)
CCl₄ CH₃Cl CH₂Cl₂ CHCl₃
Title: Re: Dipole Moment
Post by: prasannab13 on August 08, 2008, 11:32:33 AM: THANKS for your replies. But correct order is CH3Cl>CH2Cl2>ChCl3>CCl4
for reason check this link
http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C06/C06Links/www.uis.edu/7Etrammell/organic/introduction/polarity.htm
Title: Re: Dipole Moment
Post by: macman104 on August 08, 2008, 12:59:01 PM: Quote from: prasannab13 on August 08, 2008, 11:32:33 AM
THANKS for your replies. But correct order is CH3Cl>CH2Cl2>ChCl3>CCl4
for reason check this link
http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C06/C06Links/www.uis.edu/7Etrammell/organic/introduction/polarity.htm
...then why did you ask...
Title: Re: Dipole Moment
Post by: prasannab13 on August 09, 2008, 02:46:47 PM: My question was answered in another forum so I told correct answer here for those who replied.