nature of carbon

[Aswathy]

This is what is written in my chemistry book.

Silicon forms compounds with hydrogen which have chains of up to 7 to 8 atoms, but these are compounds are very reactive. The carbon-carbon bond is very strong and hence stable. This gives us the large number of compounds with many carbon atoms linked to each other.

 

Is it true that the carbon-carbon bond is stable and that enables large number of compounds to be formed ?

[hypervalent_iodine]

Short answer is yes. Sorry I don't have time to go into that more right now.

[Axioms]

What exactly do you want to know? Carbon-Carbon bonds are strong but as for the many compounds I think you may have the wrong idea. Look into intermolecular forces and see if this is what you wanted to know. You should probably look at intramolecular forces aswell. It would explain what you need to know in more detail and should answer your question about carbon-carbon bonds.

 

If the large number of compounds refers to the large variety of carbon chains that we get, then yes. Carbon carbon bonds are very stable and have orbitals where other atoms can join to form a larger compound. To understand this though you need to look at inter- and intramolecular forces.

[Aswathy]

Thank you all for the answer.

If the carbon-carbon bond is very stable, then does that mean that it do not undergo further reaction to form large number of compounds?