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Ch.9 - Molecular Geometry and Bonding Theories

Chapter 9, Problem 44

Dihydroxybenzene, C6H6O2, exists in three forms (isomers) called ortho, meta, and para:

Which of these has a nonzero dipole moment?

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Hi everyone here we have a question telling us that the three ice members of Die nitro Benzene C six H four into 04 is shown below and we have paradigm. Nitro Benzene, orthodoxy, Nitro Benzene and metadata. Nitro Benzene. And our goal is to identify the polar ice armor, the N I tuy N 02 groups would cause a die pool moment from the ring toward it. The only way that it would be non polar is if these disciple moments are opposite each other, this is because the disciples of the same magnitude, but in opposite directions, they will cancel out. So what we're really looking for here is symmetry and that symmetry is going to make it cancel out and make it non polar. So if we look at para, we have symmetry down this line that makes it non polar. The other two don't have this kind of line of symmetry which makes them polar. So the polar ice hammers are Ortho die nitro benzene and meta di nitro Benzene. And that is our final answer. Thank you for watching. Bye.