Chemistry A-Level
Intermolecular hydrogen bonding
What Intermolecular hydrogen bonding means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Intermolecular hydrogen bonding
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The δ⁺ hydrogen of one alcohol molecule is attracted to a lone pair on the oxygen of a neighbouring molecule, forming hydrogen bonds between separate molecules.
Topics that use Intermolecular hydrogen bonding
- Alcohols (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- acid catalysis
- Acidified dichromate(VI) as oxidising agent
- Balancing redox half-equations
- Controlling oxidation products
- Counting carbon neighbours of the –OH-bearing carbon
- Distillation versus reflux
- Elimination reactions
- Observable colour change as evidence of redox
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