Question

A carbon-carbon double bond has a greater bond energy than a carbon-carbon single bond. Because of the greater bond energy, a carbon-carbon double bond is (stronger,weaker) and (longer,shorter) than a carbon-carbon single bond.

Answer 1

The first blank is stronger

and the second blank is shorter

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Answer 2

Answer: Carbon-carbon double bond is stronger and shorter than the single bond.

Step-by-step explanation:

It is given that carbon-carbon double bond has greater energy than the carbon-carbon single bond.

Bond energy is directly proportional to the bond strength, which means that the double bond will have greater strength than single bond and triple bond has the greatest strength of all the bonds.

`\text{Bond energy}\propto \text{Bond strength}`

Bond energy is inversely proportional to the bond length of the carbon-carbon bond. This means that more is the bond energy, shorter will be the bond and vice-versa.

`\text{Bond energy}\propto \frac{1}{\text{Bond Length}}`

Hence, carbon-carbon double bond is stronger and shorter than the single bond.