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Ch.9 - Molecular Geometry and Bonding Theories

Chapter 9, Problem 55c

(c) Which is generally stronger, a s bond or a p bond? Explain.

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Hello. Everyone in this video. We're gonna talk a little bit about our sigma bonds being formed from the overlap of two S orbital's and then two P orbital's. So a sigma bond that's formed from the overlap of two S orbital's. So are it's like this right? It's actually going to be weaker if you're comparing it to the sigma bond from the overlap of two P orbital's. And why is that? Well, we need to remind ourselves of our directional nature of that PP overlap. So reason directional nature of our P. He overlap. Alright and formally then our answer is that the single bond created from the S orbital overlap is weaker. So this is going to be one of our answers as well as this over here. So just keep in mind always the directional nature ever Overlap from the two P orbital's. Alright, thank you all so much for watching.