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Offline YuliaSnow

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Hydrazine Polar/Non-Polar Question (ANSWERED)
« on: October 09, 2014, 12:10:43 AM »
How would you be able to tell if hydrazine is polar or non-polar because couldn't the lone pairs be in gauche and anti conformations (or was it trans and cis, i forgot) and so how would you tell if its one or the other? I thought that it could be non-polar because if the lone pairs were in anti conformation, there would be less strain and that makes it more stable. I haven't done chemistry in a while so this is confusing me.  :(

Any help would be nice.

Edit: Thanks Hunter, that made sense. I forgot there isn't a difference in electronegativity between the 2 N's.
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Re: Hydrazine Polar/Non-Polar Question
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2014, 01:05:21 AM »
Nitrogen has different EN to Hydrogen. So its polar doesn't matter which conformation it has. Like ammonia.

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Re: Hydrazine Polar/Non-Polar Question
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2014, 01:11:48 AM »


It has Sp3 hybridisation , so if a little bit distortion in symmetry it will be a polar molecule ,
And rest of the things Hunter2 have been told you.

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