Saturday, July 28, 2018

inorganic chemistry - How to explain the dipole moment anomaly of methyl fluoride and methyl chloride with respect to their hydracids?


I was checking dipole moment orders, and came across a very peculiar result: Methyl fluoride (CHX3F) has lesser dipole moment than methyl chloride (CHX3Cl), but hydrofluoric acid (HF) has more dipole moment than hydrochloric acid (HCl).


At first I thought it was about distance, but upon seeing the second one, it led me to think about polarizability. So my question shortens to this: Which factor dominates while checking dipole moments and when?





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