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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.