What makes hydrogen peroxide a polar molecule?

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What makes hydrogen peroxide a polar molecule?

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Answer 1 · 2016-08-08T05:01:17

Each hydrogen peroxide molecule contains $2 \times O - H$ $2xxO-H$ bonds.

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As in water, the $O - H$ $O-H$ bonds are polar, i.e there is substantial charge separation. Of course, the $O - O$ $O-O$ bond itself is non-polar so that when we assign oxidation states to this molecule, we have $H^{+ I}$ $H^(+I)$ and $O^{- I}$ $O^(-I)$ . Nevertheless, we would rightly predict that hydrogen peroxide is polar.

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