I came up with this question when I was trying to determine whether H2O2 is polar or not.
H2O2 looks like this when looked parallel to oxygen-oxygen bound:(source: Pubchem)
Each hydrogen is in one of the three positions available around each oxygen(the two nonbonding electron pairs occupy the other two); even the oxygen-oxygen bound can rotate to set hydrogens in any position relative to each other. Therefore I don't see the problem in following nonpolar structure(pretty neat!)
What concept am I missing while determining molecular geometry?
Is a H2O2 molecule sometimes polar and sometimes nonpolar?
Thanks for your help!
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