Chemistry · Ch 11 — The p-Block Elements
Important Trends and Anomalous Behaviour of Carbon
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Important Trends and Anomalous Behaviour of Carbon
Important Trends and the Anomalous Behaviour of Carbon
Just as boron stands apart from the rest of Group 13, carbon behaves quite differently from the rest of Group 14. Four factors combine to make carbon anomalous: its comparatively small atomic size, its higher electronegativity, its higher ionisation enthalpy, and — critically — the complete absence of accessible d orbitals. …