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Does PCl6 - have a dipole moment?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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11y ago

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14y ago

The characteristics that determine whether or not a molecule is dipolar are:

-the electron distribution around the central atom is not symmetrical and/or
-atoms coming off the central atom are not symmetrically arranged.


PCl5 does not qualifies for the first one because there is one electron pair between P and each Cl. The second one does not qualify either, because in a trigonal bypyramidal structure (which PCl5 is characterized as) is symmetrical. Thus it does not have a dipole moment.

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13y ago

CCL4 does not have a dipole moment as there are no lone electrons and also because of it's symmetrical shape. although there is an charge difference between the atoms it cancels out due to the symmetrical shape.

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10y ago

No. The bond dipoles cancel each other out because the molecule is trigonal.

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11y ago

Yes. The P-Cl bond is polar covalent.

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ans.?

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13y ago

Yes it does =)

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14y ago

the answer is No.

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13y ago

yes it have dipole moment...

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11y ago

yes

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nah bro

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nah bro

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