What do you mean by cleavage (bond cleavage)?
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What do you mean by cleavage (bond cleavage)?
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Bond cleavage is the splitting of a chemical bond. they are of two types :::
1. Homolytic bond cleavage
2. Hetrolytic bond cleavage.
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Bond cleavage is actually the breaking of bond in a compound
Bond cleavage could be of two types:-
1) homolytic cleavage: there is equal sharing of electrons between atoms/molecules
Eg. CH3-H --------> CH3• + H•
2) heterolytic cleavage: both electrons of the bond is taken by more electronegative atom/molecule resulting in formation of positive and negative charge
Eg. HCl--------> H+ + Cl-