chemistry
By yogesh0505
@yogesh0505 (112)
August 7, 2009 4:53am CST
is there any trick to calculate the covalency of any compound by any simple means,please answer fast ,day after tomorrow is my chemistry test
1 response
@inedible (768)
• Singapore
7 Aug 09
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090627120515AASM7TF
First reply is relevant to your interests (unless I've misunderstood your question). Specifically, this part of the reply:
"Percent ionic character = 100[1-e^(-DEN^2/4)]
where DEN is the electronegativity difference and e is the base of the natural logarithms."
Percentage of covalent character in a bond will just be (100% - percentage of ionic character).
