Why do carbon always forms covalent bond?

Answer 1

Carbon has four valence electrons in its outermost orbit which indicate it need four further electrons to complete its valence according to octect rule. It is also not possible for Carbon to remove all of its four valence electrons for the same cause of obeying octect rule. Hence the only option left for carbon is make covalent bonds with another carbon or any other element whose electrons are available for making a covalent bond. That's why most of the compounds of carbon are covalent.

Answer 2

carbon has 4 valence electrons. To gain stability, it should lose its valence electrons, gain four more electrons or share its 4 valence electrons with other atoms. Carbon atom has been no tendency to lose its four valence electrons or gain four more electrons from other atoms. Therefore, carbon atom completes its octet only by sharing its valence electrons with other atoms. As a result, therefore carbon always forms only covalent bonds with other atoms.

Answer 3

A carbon atom has 4 electrons in its outer shell, and requires 8 to make itself stable. As all elements want to be stable, they need to find electrons from elsewhere.

As carbon is a non-metal, if it bonds with another non-metal then it will form covalent bonds, where the two non-metals share the electrons between themselves.

Also, as carbon needs 4 extra electrons, it will form 4 of these covalent bonds to make itself stable

Answer 4

The atomic no. of carbon is 6 which means that a neutral atom of carbon contains 6 electrons .so, the electronic confugration of carbon is 2 and 4

since a carbon atom has 4 electrons in its outermost cell ,so it should either lose 4 electrons or gain 4 electrons to achieve the inert gas electron configuration and become stable,its not possible to remove 4 electrons from a carbon atom,its not possible to add as many as 4 electrons to a carbon atom,,therefore carbon atoms can achieve the inert gas electron arrangement only by the sharing of electrons,therefore ,carbon always forms covalent bonds...