Question

intermolecular forces that carbon tertrachloride can interact with water.

Answer 1

Carbon has an electronegativity of 2,5. Chlorine has an electronegativity of 3,0. The electronegativity difference between carbon and chlorine is 1,0 (recall the section on electronegativity in the previous chapter). We also know that the bond between carbon and chlorine is polar.

Also from the previous chapter we know that carbon tetrachloride is a tetrahedral molecule (recall molecular shape). Carbon tetrachloride is symmetrical and so is non-polar overall.

Now decide which case it is

Carbon tetrachloride is non-polar and so the only kind of force that can exist is induced dipole.