Bond length [ENDORSED]

[Joanna Huang]

How do you calculate bond length? (assuming you have drawn out the Lewis structure)

[Andrew Dao 3C]

Bond length depends on the atoms bonding, so there is really no way for you to know without actual experimentally finding it. You can usually guess bond angle though, thanks to VSEPR theory.

[Anh Trinh 1J]

I believe you are not able to calculate the bond length without through experiment. But single bonds are the longest, followed by double bonds, and the shortest are triple bonds!

[Jeffrey Doeve 2I]

To determine bond length, you would have to be given experimentally derived atomic radius. The bond length of a bond would be the radius of both atoms totaled up. This would be the internuclear distance and the length of the bond.

[Brandon Carris]

Could a neighboring atom in the molecule change the bond length too?

[Chem_Mod]

How do you calculate bond length? (assuming you have drawn out the Lewis structure)

For covalent bond: add the two covalent radii

For ionic bond: add the two ionic radii

[Armen_Isayan_2L]

Hello! In order to detemrine the bond length we would have to consider the atomic radius. Utilizing the atomic radius, we would total the radius of the atoms up. If the bond in question is a covalent bond we would both the radius of the covalent bond and we would do the same for an ionic bond.

[Adam_ElSayed_3B]

We use VESPR theory and our knowledge of different compounds and their bond lengths, but I've only ever heard of it being done with a computer.

[Nicole Bruno Dis 1B]

The length of the bond can be determined by the number of bonded electrons (i.e. the bond order). The higher the bond order, the stronger the pull between the two atoms and the shorter the bond length. The length of the bond between two atoms can also be thought of as the sum of the covalent radii of the two atoms.

[205323697]

Does it matter if we have an ionic bond or covalent bond? Would we still calculate it the same way?

[405716590]

you don't really know it since they are specific to molecules and you want to calculate it plus he said we didn't need to know that

[Nishan Reddy 3K]

Bond length is usually not calculable without certain information but in general, singly bonds have the longest bond length whereas it gets smaller and smaller as bonds between the atoms are added.

[Emily Widjaja 3A]

I don't think you are required to calculate bond length, but just remember that single bonds are the longest. Using VESPR, you can appproximate bond angles though

[Hannah Thornton 1F]

We are unable to determine bond length without knowing the atomic radius. However, we do know that single bonds are the longest, followed by double bonds, and triple bonds are the shortest.