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       Help in this question??
   DIR By: Chris
       Date: October 19, 2012, 3:08 am
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       Arrange the following species in order of increasing length of
       carbon-oxygen bond: Na2CO3, HCO2Na, CH3ONa
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       Re: Help in this question??
   DIR By: Potla
       Date: October 19, 2012, 3:12 pm
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       I guess Na2CO3 has three equivalent resonating structures, so
       the C-O bond order is 4/3.
       For HCO2Na, the C-O bond order is 3/2.
       For CH3ONa, the C-O bond order is simply 1.
       So, the order of bondlength is HCO2Na<Na2CO3<CH3ONa.
       :)
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       Re: Help in this question??
   DIR By: Chris
       Date: October 24, 2012, 10:20 am
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       Thanks
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