Question

What is a banana bond?

Answer 1

Banana bond is the somewhat whimsical name given to covalent bonds in three carbon rings. The name comes from the shape of the electron clouds around each bonding carbon - instead of being linear, they are bent to overlap

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Answer 2

so are those sigma or pi bonds

Answer 3

I was thinking of Diborane B2H6
where a Hydrogen is bonding with two Boron atoms

Answer 4

Not quite sure. The carbon-carbon bonds in cycolopentane are thought to be somewhere between sp3 and sp2 hybridized. So diborane, I think there would probably be four bonding electrons - one each from the two borons and the two bridging hydrogens - and I think they are probably distributed evenly between the four...

Answer 5

but the electrons in the hydrogen will want to remain a pair (plus and minus spins)
each boron can only contribute 1 electron
even distribution is imposible

Answer 6

unklerhaukus can u help me?/