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Chemistry P4| A2 only

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how does an electron withdrawing or donating group.......affect acidity of a compound....
wht do these withdrawing and donating mean?

An electron withdrawing group like chlorine and Oxygen have high Electronegativities and tries to pull electrons towards them!
In a compound therefore the bond can break easily..electrons are accepted by the high Electronegativity groups and H+ is easily released...
 
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it will be correct but in brackets they wrote a negative sign.......shouldnt it be positive??????????
In brackets it means that it may or may not be written by the student!

They have included negative but i dont exactly know why!
They also were in doubt, so they decided to give the mark to positive values as well!
 
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