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Inorganic Chemistry (Essentials) - Class 12
Course: Inorganic Chemistry (Essentials) - Class 12 > Unit 1
Lesson 2: Group-14 elements- Trends in the properties of group-14 elements
- Inert pair effect and bonding: Carbon vs Lead
- Oxidising and reducing nature of group-14 elements
- Electron-precise nature of group-14 elements
- Chemical properties of group-14 elements
- Chemistry of some important oxides of carbon
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Inert pair effect and bonding: Carbon vs Lead
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In this video, we will compare the bonding preferences in carbon with that of lead and try to understand why lead does not prefer to form covalent bonds in general, using the inert pair effect.
Timestamps
00:00 - Recap of inert pair effect.
01:56 - Covalent bonding in carbon
03:06 - Consequence of inert pair effect in lead.
03:40 - Why lead does not prefer covalent bonding.
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