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Grade 12th passOrganic Chemistry

Why CH4 have less basic strength than NH3?while its electronagetivity is less than NH3

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8 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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Profile image of Shailendra Kumar Sharma
8 Years ago
The basicity of NH3 is because of lone pair on N when it makes bonding with H, now there is a free lone pair at N. This lone pair may undergo some protonation thus NH3 is more basic