What other piece of information is needed to tell if a molecule that contains hydrogen and oxygen atoms can form hydrogen bonds?

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Aaden Lin

31 March, 13:11

What other piece of information is needed to tell if a molecule that contains hydrogen and oxygen atoms can form hydrogen bonds?

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Olive Costa · Answer 1

If there is a single pair of electrons that bind to nitrogen, oxygen, or fluorine, the bonding to water is plausible. Hence a hydrogen can be accepted. If there is a bound hydrogen to one of the three above-mentioned elements, then it can be donated. The other information is the precense of lone pair of electron.