A hydrogen bond is defined as an attractive force acting between the hydrogen attached to an electronegative atom of one molecule and an electronegative atom of a different molecule (may be of the same kind).
Due to a difference between electronegativities, the bond pair between hydrogen and the electronegative atom gets drifted far away from the hydrogen atom. As a result, a hydrogen atom becomes electropositive with respect to the other atom and acquires a positive charge.
The magnitude of is maximum in the solid state and minimum in the gaseous state.
There are two types of :
(i) Intermolecular e.g., , etc.
(ii) Intramolecular e.g.,
Hydrogen bonds are stronger than Van der Walls forces since hydrogen bonds are regarded as an extreme form of interaction
What inference do you draw about the behaviour of Ag+ and Cu2+ from these reactions?