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Grade 12Organic Chemistry

why carbon-carbon not make 4 bonds with each other????????????

Profile image of Anuj Shrivastava
15 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of deepak kumar singh AskiitiansExpert-IITM
15 Years ago

dear anuj shrivastava

carbon does not make four bond with another carbon because it is very impossible to arrange four bonds in the space, so they can repel each other very less, because there are only three axis. and the catinaton property of carbon will also get vanish if it made four bonds.

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Profile image of Anuj Shrivastava
15 Years ago

is thats mean no any 2 tetravalent elements can make 4 bonds with eac other???????????