Which one of the following statements about carbon monoxide is correct

1.	Which one of the following statements about carbon monoxide is correct ?
Answer» It has two lone PAIRS of electrons on oxygen atom Carbon atom in it is SP hybridized In formaing metal carbonyls, oxygen is attached to the metal atom It has LARGE value of diple moment Solution :CO has the strucuture : `C underset(LARR)=O`: which involves sp hybridisation of C-atom . Because of donation of electron by O-atom to C-atom ,it has low polar character and HENCE low dipole moment ` (0.39 C m/0.117 D)`.

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