11. Types of Bond Fission

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What is bond fission?

Breaking a covalent bond

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What are the 2 types of fission?

Homolytic and heterolytic

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What is homolytic fission?

2 shared electrons of covalent bond are split equally between 2 atoms

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Draw the homolytic fission diagram

Yes

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What must the 2 atoms in homolytic fission have?

Have the same electronegativity difference

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What is heterolytic fission?

2 shared electrons of the covalent bond are split unequally between 2 atoms

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What must the 2 atoms in heterolytic fission have?

Difference in electronegativity