Assertion :The experimentally determined carbon to oxygen bond length in carbon dioxide is 115 pm. Reason: The lengths of a normal carbon to oxygen double bond (C=O) and carbon to oxygen triple bond (C≡O) are 121 pm and 110 pm respectively.
A
Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion
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B
Both Assertion and Reason are correct but Reason is not the correct explanation for Assertion
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C
Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect
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D
Both Assertion and Reason are incorrect
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Solution
The correct option is B Both Assertion and Reason are correct but Reason is not the correct explanation for Assertion In carbon dioxide, the carbon-oxygen bond lengths lie in between the values for (C=O) and (C≡O) bond lengths because carbon dioxide is a resonance hybrid of following structures :