Question

How effective can a carbon-carbon bond be?

Answer 1

Not sure what you mean by effective.

Answer 2

If you mean bond strength, it pretty strong.

Answer 3

Consider a Diamond... How effective do you think the C-C bond there???.. One of the strongest???!!!

Answer 4

Yes ! Diamond has very strong C-C bonds. But the extreme strength of diamond comes from the way the atoms are arranged, the tetrahedral lattice.

Answer 5

its depend on kind of bond
you know that every bond is a game with electron in orbitals
one kind is like dimond
one another like ethylen
and the last one in asethylen

Answer 6

C-C bond is the strongest bond when it form sp3. you can compare graphite and diamond, the bond in graphite is sp2(3 electrons are shared among the neighboring atoms and one electron is free) hybrid where as in diamond is is sp3(all the electron are shared between C atoms)

Answer 7

of course that kind of overlap of orbitals is important but we must clear that what we want
if we want to compare atomic bond we are not allow to compare it with crystal structure
graphite is weaker than diamond due to its crystal structure not for orbitals