Bond Length
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Bond Length
Are longer bonds the weaker bonds that are easily broken and more involved in a reaction?
Re: Bond Length
Yes, bond length and bond strength usually have a correlation. The longer the bond, the weaker the bond; The shorter the bond, the stronger the bond.
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Re: Bond Length
Yes that's right, also I wanted to add that a single bond will be longer than a double bond, and the double bond will be longer than the triple: all because multiple bonds will be shorter. The stronger the bond, the shorter length, and the stronger the attraction.
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Re: Bond Length
This correlation also goes along with the amount of bonding occurring: so single bonds are the weakest and longest, while triple bonds are the strongest and shortest.
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Re: Bond Length
yes due to the larger amount of overlap between the two orbitals104904344 wrote:And sigma bonds are stronger than pi bonds, right?
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