Electronegativity and its Applications
Electronegativity and its Applications: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Applications of Electronegativity, Pauling's Scale of Electronegativity, Effect of Electronegativity on Acidic Strength, and Effect of Electronegativity on Basic Strength of Compounds.
Important Questions on Electronegativity and its Applications
The formation of the oxide ion, requires first an exothermic and then an endothermic step as shown below :
This is because

Electron gain enthalpy is the tendency of an isolated gaseous atom while electronegativity is the tendency to attract the shared pair of electrons in covalent bond.

Electron gain enthalpy is the tendency of an isolated species to accept an additional electron to form a _____ while electronegativity is defined as the tendency of the atom to attract a shared pair of electrons towards it in a covalent bond.

Electron gain enthalpy is the tendency of an isolated gaseous atom while electronegativity is the tendency to attract the shared pair of electrons in _____.

Differentiate electronegativity and electron gain enthalpy.

The highly metallic element will have the configuration of

Compare the stability of the following carbanions:

Which among the following statements is correct?

Which of the following order represent the order for the strength of base?

Among the following compounds, the strongest acid is -

Which of the following arrangement gives the correct order of increasing basicity?

Identify the correct decreasing order of acid strength for the following compounds:

If bond length of , bond length of , , , then find out bond length -

Calculate the electronegativity of fluorine using the following data.
,
,
and the electronegativity of .

Which of the following statements is true for ethane, ethene and acetylene?

Which of the following statements (s) is (are) not true?

The values of electronegativity of atom and are 1.20 and 4.0 respectively. The percentage of ionic character of bond is

The correct order of increasing oxidising power is

The values of electronegativity of atoms and are and , respectively. The percentage of ionic character of bond is

Which is chemically most active non-metal?
