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Grade 12th passOrganic Chemistry

Toluene has small but definite dipolmoment.explain why?

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9 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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9 Years ago
@ shreya 
toluene have all carbon carbon bond , due to that they have avery small dipole moment , and if precisely u can say then its negligible . 
but the higher electronegativity of sp2 orbitals relative to sp3 orbitals may inductively draw some of the electron density out of the methyl group and into thye areane creating a small dipole moment . 
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