Question

What are halides in chemistry?

Answer 1

Halides are a class of organic compounds containing halogen atoms attached to a carbon atom of the chain or ring. They essentially contain Carbon-Halogen polar covalent bonds.

Explanation:

One of the simplest examples of organohalogen compounds would be, chloromethane (`CH_3Cl`) which has a tetrahedral structure as shown below,

Other than that, more complex organohalogen compounds are there. Some compounds may have other functional groups as well.

One thing which is to be noted is that, due to Inductive effect, Chlorine withdraws the electron pair towards itself making the C-Cl bond polar.