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Does carbon monoxide have charge?
« on: March 21, 2006, 05:37:08 AM »
I have seen represenations of carbon monoxide with a tripplebond with a positive charge og oxygen and a negative charge on carbon...

But this representation assume that carbon is in the same oxidation state as in organic molecules... Or is this right?
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Re:Does carbon monoxide have charge?
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2006, 01:10:20 PM »
charge seperation occurs because one of the bond in the C=O is actually a dative bond, whereby oxygen donated an electron pair to form a covalent bond between carbon and oxygen. Since oxygen "looses" its electron, it gains a positive charge and since carbon "gains" an additional electron pair, it gains a negative charge. The overall charge is zero.
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Re:Does carbon monoxide have charge?
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2006, 07:54:25 AM »
According to the experiementally result, the CO is very week polarized molecule. So charges on Cand O is very little
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