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Grade 11Physical Chemistry

Compare the dipole moment of CF4, CHF3, CH2F2, CH3F

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9 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Vikas TU
9 Years ago
Dipole moment is zero for all the non – polar compounds.
That is all the geometry having structures as sp,sp2,sp3,sp3d,sp3d2andsp3d3 would have dipole zero as all gets cancelled out.
Hence,
CF4 has least dipole moment then CHF3 then CH2F2 then CH3F.