Timeline for Cyanide ion non-bonding/lone pair?
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| Nov 28, 2023 at 4:10 | comment | added | Wang | Thank you! I missed the dot lines linking to 2s orbitals of both atoms. | |
| Nov 27, 2023 at 22:16 | comment | added | Martin - マーチン♦ | @wang it's more involved than that. The diagram isn't to scale, and the 2p orbitals are not the only ones contributing. It's a fact though that the orbital is polarised towards carbon. That is what the image already shows. | |
| Nov 26, 2023 at 15:19 | comment | added | Wang | Thank you for replying! My question was, it seems to me that on the diagram you drew above, the HOMO ( σ 1.0 eV right?) is more close to the 2p orbitals of nitrogen, wouldn't it be more polarized to nitrogen? | |
| Nov 26, 2023 at 13:14 | comment | added | Martin - マーチン♦ | @Wang I don't really understand the question. The ordering of these orbitals comes from quantum chemical calculation. It is quite old, but should still hold. I've also written about this feature for CO. chemistry.stackexchange.com/q/51262/4945 | |
| Nov 26, 2023 at 12:51 | comment | added | Wang | Why would the HOMO of CN- have higher coefficient of carbon? Doesn't the energy of the HOMO more close to nitrogen? | |
| Oct 27, 2014 at 19:08 | vote | accept | Dissenter | ||
| Oct 15, 2014 at 8:42 | history | answered | Martin - マーチン♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |