Percentage Ionic Character

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Kaleb Tesfaye 1I
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Percentage Ionic Character

Postby Kaleb Tesfaye 1I » Wed May 16, 2018 8:42 am

What is the minimum percentage requirement for a bond to be labeled as ionic? Does it just have to have more than 50 percent ionic character?
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Eugene Chung 3F
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Re: Percentage Ionic Character

Postby Eugene Chung 3F » Wed May 16, 2018 11:02 am

the guideline states that if electronegativity difference is greater than 2, it is ionic bond
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Sarah Brecher 1I
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Re: Percentage Ionic Character

Postby Sarah Brecher 1I » Wed May 16, 2018 11:49 am

Will we be given the electronegativity of the elements so that we can determine if it is an ionic / covalent bond?
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Hussein Saleh 1L
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Re: Percentage Ionic Character

Postby Hussein Saleh 1L » Wed May 16, 2018 1:06 pm

Sarah Brecher 1I wrote:Will we be given the electronegativity of the elements so that we can determine if it is an ionic / covalent bond?

I think we would have to determine that if given a periodic table. Its pretty easy to do so ionization energy increases from left to right and from down to up.
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Hussein Saleh 1L
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Re: Percentage Ionic Character

Postby Hussein Saleh 1L » Wed May 16, 2018 1:15 pm

Kaleb Tesfaye 1I wrote:What is the minimum percentage requirement for a bond to be labeled as ionic? Does it just have to have more than 50 percent ionic character?

Remember in lecture on Friday, Professor Lavelle stated that any difference in electronegativity that is greater than 2 should be labeled as an ionic bond and anything less than 1.5 should be labeled as a covalent bond!

Hope I helped!
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