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Offline CIT

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Cyanide ion and M.O
« on: November 25, 2008, 03:26:46 PM »
Hi,

I have constructed a dot structure for cyanide ion, and i got that carbon is more negatively charged. But, using M.O for cyanide I get that N is more negatively charged. Is that correct?
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Re: Cyanide ion and M.O
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2008, 05:08:16 PM »
 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Cyanide-montage.png/150px-Cyanide-montage.png

I'd say the formal negative charge is on carbon, but nitrogen's electronegativity pulls over a large portion of that charge.
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Re: Cyanide ion and M.O
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2008, 05:19:57 PM »
So which one is more negatively charged using MO?
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