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IB Chemistry HL 3.4.3 Heterolytic Fission Question Bank

Practise IB Chemistry HL 3.4.3 Heterolytic Fission with focused questions on curly-arrow electron movement, reactants and products.

Syllabus
First assessment 2025
Course
Chemistry HL
Level
HL

Exam points

  • move both bonding electrons to one atom using a full double-barbed curly arrow
  • assign a negative charge to the fragment receiving the pair and positive to the other
  • distinguish ionic heterolysis from radical-forming homolysis in equations and diagrams

3.4.3—Heterolytic fission question 1

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Which correctly shows heterolytic bond fission?

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