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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

What is the structure of Basic beryllium Nitrate (BBN)?

Basic Beryllium nitrate is a Covalent compound and has as unique structure like [Be4O(NO3)], containg six nitrate group. The more interesting structure of Basic Beryllium nitrate because the nitrate group act as indented ligand in forming a bridge  between two Be atoms.

How to basic beryllium nitrate is obtained from beryllium nitrates?

Their is a unique feature of Beryllium nitrate , on heating at low temperature (125℃) it give Basic Beryllium nitrate , nitrogen gas and oxygen gas but at high temperature (above 1000℃) it give same products like other bivalent nitrate salts.

Why are the properties of CO2 and SiO2 different?

Their properties are very different because CO2 is a chain-like three-atom  molecule and SiO2 is a solid compound with the three dimensional bridges between silicon and oxygen atoms.

Monday, December 21, 2020

Why trimethylamine amine ( N(CH3)3) is tetrahedral while trisilyl amine (N(SiH3)3) planner.?


Nitrogen (N) atom in trimethylamine [N(CH3)3] is sp3 hybridised and tetrahedral due to non bonding electron pair of N is localised (more basic). On the other hand N atom of trisilylamine [N(SiH3)3] is sp2 hybridised and trigonal planner.This is due to the participatlon of non-bondlng pair of N into pπ-dπ back banding. Due to this delocalization of non-bonding electron pair of N in trisilylamine it is also less basic.

What is the Si–N–C bond angle in Silyl isothiocyanate and methyl isothiocyanate (H3CNCS)?

The hybridization of Nitrogen in Methyl isothiocyanate (H3CNCS) is Sp2. Thus bond angle (< C-N-C) is expected to be 120°. But it is slightly greater than 120° due to resonating structure. The resonating structure has N as Sp hybridized. Hence bond angle of the overall structure is found to be about 142°

But in case Silyl isothiocyanate (SiH3NCO), the structure is found to be (sp hybridized)