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Example Question #2061 : Ap Biology
Which of the following cannot participate in hydrogen bonding?
Chlorine
Oxygen
All of these can participate in hydrogen bonding
Nitrogen
Fluorine
Chlorine
Hydrogen bonds are intermolecular forces between hydrogens and adjacent molecules. These adjacent molecules must contain either fluorine, oxygen, or nitrogen, the three most electronegative atoms. These electronegative atoms pull electrons away from the bonded hydrogen, giving it a small positive charge and giving themselves a slightly negative charge. When the positive hydrogen of one molecule come close to a negative charge on another, the opposite charges attract and pull the molecules close together to form a hydrogen bond. The hydrogen must be bonded to oxygen (-OH), fluorine (HF), or nitrogen (-NH) to have this charging effect.
Example Question #2062 : Ap Biology
Which of the following molecules cannot participate in hydrogen bonding?
Hydrogen bonding takes place when a hydrogen atom is attracted to a highly electronegative atom in another molecule. Hydrogen bonding takes place between hydrogen and either nitrogen, oxygen, or fluorine. Carbon has an electronegativity similar to hydrogen's, and will not hydrogen bond with hydrogens in other molecules.
Only molecules with -OH, -FH, or -NH groups can form hydrogen bonds.
Example Question #11 : Bonding And Forces
What intermolecular forces can be found in a molecule of ethene?
London dispersion forces and hydrogen bonding
London dispersion forces, hydrogen bonding, and dipole-dipole attraction
Dipole-dipole attraction and ionic bonding
London dispersion forces only
London dispersion forces and dipole-dipole attraction
London dispersion forces only
Ethene is an organic molecule composed of two carbon atoms, joined by a double bond, and four hydrogen atoms.
Ethene, like all molecules, exhibits London dispersion forces. This molecule, however, has no net dipole moment, so it will not exhibit dipole-dipole attraction. Also, even though it contains hydrogens, it does not exhibit hydrogen bonding. To exhibit hydrogen bonding, the hydrogen atoms must be attached to more electronegative atoms, namely nitrogen, fluorine, or oxygen. Finally, ionic bonding is only present in ionic compounds, not organic compounds.
Example Question #2063 : Ap Biology
Which of the following intermolecular forces is broken when water is boiled?
Double bonds
Hydrogen bonds
Covalent bonds
None of these answers
Ionic bonds
Hydrogen bonds
Intermolecular forces are transient forces between two separate molecules. Water is a polar molecule. The oxygen atom carries a slight positive charge, while the hydrogen atoms carry slight negative charges. This is the result of the large difference in electronegativity between oxygen and hydrogen. When two water molecules are next to each other, the partially positive hydrogen will be attracted to the partially negative oxygen. This attraction is known as a hydrogen bond.
Ionic bonds, covalent bonds, and double bonds are all intramolecular forces. These are stable bonds between atoms that establish the identity of the molecule. Breaking any of these bonds would alter the identity of the compound.
Example Question #191 : High School Chemistry
Water has a higher boiling point than hydrogen sulfide due to which type of bonding?
Covalent bonding
London dispersion forces
Heisenberg bonding
Ionic bonding
Hydrogen bonding
Hydrogen bonding
Hydrogen bonding occurs between a hydrogen atom on one molecule and a very electronegative atom—namely oxygen, nitrogen, or fluorine—on a neighboring molecule. This electrostatic force results in a stronger intermolecular bond than would otherwise be present without the hydrogen bond. A stronger intermolecular bond results in a higher boiling point.
Water (H2O) exhibits hydrogen bonding between the hydrogen of one water molecule and the oxygen of another water molecule. Since sulfur is not as electronegative as oxygen, hydrogen sulfide (H2S) does not exhibit hydrogen bonding. This is the reason why water is a liquid at room temperature, while hydrogen sulfide is a gas.
Wrong answers explained: Neither water nor hydrogen sulfide has ionic bonds. Both have covalent bonds and London dispersion force, but this does not explain why water's boiling point is higher. Heisenberg bonding does not exist and is a misleading answer option.
Example Question #192 : High School Chemistry
Which of the following compounds will exhibit hydrogen bonding?
When hydrogen is bound to either fluorine, oxygen, or nitrogen, the hydrogen atom carries little of the electron density of the covalent bond. This partially positively charged hydrogen atom may interact with the partial negative charge located on adjacent electronegative atoms such as F, N, or O on adjacent molecules. Note that hydrogen bonds are intermolecular forces, not intramolecular. This means that hydrogen bonds form between two separate molecules. They plan an important role in the chemistry of water, and other compounds that exhibit hydrogen bonding.
Example Question #193 : High School Chemistry
When will resonance be possible in a molecule?
The molecule must contain a double or triple bond adjacent to a single bond
The molecule must contain oxygen or nitrogen
The molecule must only contain single bonds
The molecule must have a triple bond adjacent to a single bond
The molecule must contain carbon atoms
The molecule must contain a double or triple bond adjacent to a single bond
Resonance is the movement of electrons from one bond to another. This helps to shift the electron distribution between multiple atoms, creating molecular stability. In order for resonance to occur, there must be a pi bond next to a sigma bond. A pi bond is a double bond or triple bond and a sigma bond is a single bond. During resonance, the electrons from the pi bond move around causing the double (or triple) bond to shift positions. This frequently occurs with oxygen and nitrogen because they have several valence electrons and can readily form pi bonds, but these elements are not required to form resonance structures.
Example Question #194 : High School Chemistry
Which of the following best explains the concept of resonance structures?
Chemists are unsure of the structures of some molecules, so they use resonance structures to model several possibilities at once
Certain molecules exist in nature whose structures may have two or more different forms based on the instantaneous locations of electrons within the molecule
Certain molecules exist in nature whose structures may have two or more different forms based on the locations of atoms within the molecule
Certain elements exist in nature in several different isotopes
Certain molecules exist in nature whose structures may have two or more different forms based on the instantaneous locations of electrons within the molecule
Resonance structures are a way of describing the different possible locations of delocalized electrons within a molecule. Although a molecule might have several correct resonance forms, often, one is more stable than the others. Molecules whose structures differ in the locations of atoms are called isomers.
Example Question #2064 : Ap Biology
A substance that cannot be broken down by chemical reactions into other substances is __________.
a compound
an element
a subatomic particle
a unit of matter
an element
An element cannot be broken down into other substances. Compounds consist of two or more elements and thus can be broken down. Matter is simply anything that takes up space and has mass; both elements and compounds are matter. Subatomic particles are the building blocks of atoms. Though atoms are the units that make up elements and are the smallest units to have the properties of an element, subatomic particles themselves do not display characteristic of an element.
Example Question #2065 : Ap Biology
What is the best description for isotopes of elements?
Elements that have different numbers of protons and different numbers of neutrons.
Elements that have the same number of electrons and the same number of neutrons.
Elements that have different numbers of electrons.
The same elements that have the same number of electrons and different numbers of neutrons.
The same elements that have the same number of electrons and different numbers of neutrons.
Isotopes are the same element that have the same number of protons and electrons. The difference is in their atomic weight because they have different numbers of neutrons.