How will you say that a compound is planar?
1 Answer
Apr 21, 2018
A specie is said to be planar if its constituent parts lie on a SAME PLANE. (imaginary plane)
Explanation:
In case of Organic Compounds ; a compound is said to be planar if all the Carbon atoms lie in the same plane.
Eg : Aromatic compounds
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene
In case of Inorganic Compounds ; there are various types of geometries of the compound in which different-different atoms can lie in a same plane
Eg : In symmetrical compounds like
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