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Anushka Gupta posted an Question
June 21, 2020 • 03:32 am 30 points
  • IIT JAM
  • Chemistry (CY)

Why naoh is electrone rich defficient??

why naoh is electrone rich defficient?? how to determine electrone density difference in neutral stable reagents

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    Shivaji khadake Best Answer

    Hello Student we should know first how to dissociate neutral molecule to ions, if we dissociate NaOH you will get Na+ and OH- now you will get question why Na is + and OH is minus reason for this is electronegativity of that ion now you can check electronegativity of sodium is 0.93 and electronegativity of oxygen is 3.4 so what is now electronegativity means- electronegativity means how strongly atom attracts electron to themselves that is why OH ions having more electron because that I am having more electronegativity which came from bond of NaOH. and OH having minus charge because it having more electronegativity, that is why bond between sodium and hydroxy shift towards hydroxyl group and hydroxide become nucleophile as well as we can call it as electron rich. and sodium plus become electrophile because it having less electron in its outermost shell, so it has positive charge. main concept to identify electron density on neutral atom is electronegativity if you you are able to check electronegativity then you can find out the electron density. thank you for asking this question if you have any doubt you can ask

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    so both electrophile and neucleophile are present in reagent

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    why we call naoh is electrone rich reagent if both electroohile and neucleophile are present in naoh so we must say nuetral thier is no density difference

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    because hydroxy is stronger nucleophile than sodium electrophile. nucleophile dominance on electrophile so it acts as nucleophile

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    as well as electronegativity difference is bigger so nucleophile is more stronger than electrophile so it is called as nucleophilic reagent

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    ok thank you

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    i am confused in hcl why hcl is electroohile while cl is more electronegative than h

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