TOJC Dipoles and H-O-N-O
carol krancich (carolkrancich@msn.com)
Sun, 15 Sep 96 07:35:43 UT
Lori, regarding your question about oxygen: yes, oxygen will bond to itself.
Oxygen gas is a diatomic molecule. But as far as H-O-O-N goes, it won't work.
In that configuration, the number of bonds for the nitrogen and the oxygen
attached to it are all goobered up and neither the nitrogen nor the oxygen is
happy.
About dipoles and dipole moments: if I understand it correctly, the term
dipole simply means that there is a difference in electronegativity, and the
dipole moment is the actual measurement in debye's (bottom of page 38). There
are good examples in the book of molecules with dipoles between atoms and no
net charge for the molecule. For example, problem 1.11 page 41.