C2H4O, also modernly known as Ethanal, is an organic aldehyde compound. This means that Ethanal is a highly reactive colorless flammable chemical compound that is used as a starting material to many other chemical compounds.
Above is the Lewis structure of the molecule. By simply looking at the molecule it is easy to say that it is a Polar molecule that can bond to a copy of itself by London Dispersion Forces, Dipole-Dipole Forces, and Hydrogen Bonding.
What is a Polar molecule? What are all these different types of forces and bonds?
I thought that the general appearance of this blog was nice, and easy to read. I especially liked the pictures and the color scheme of your blog. I agree with the assessment of the polarity of the bonds and molecule, and found the detailed explanation of the polarity of the bonds was very informative. I also liked the pictures of the structure of the molecule, although an additional picture of the 3D structure of the molecule would have been helpful. In addition to this, I believe that the molecule exhibits London forces, dipole-dipole forces and hydrogen bonding as well, which is consistent to the information presented in the blog. Lastly, I found the ad to be educational and presented many of the different characteristics of Acetaldehyde.
ReplyDeleteI liked the way that you labeled the forces of attraction, it made it very clear what they were. I also liked your picture which clearly depicts the Lewis structure.
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