Depto. Química Orgánica

BOND PROPERTIES OF HALOALKANES

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C-halogen (C-X) bond strength decreases when going down the Periodic Table within the halogen group. Bond polarity also does but to a much lesser extent.
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The C-X bond is strongly polarized and, because of that, the carbon bonded to an halogen in ana haloalkanes is an important point of reactivity:
it will be attacked by nucleophiles.
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