co(carbonmonoxide) is a stable compound. how?

Question

as it doesn't form a dative bond. how does is it stable as the carbon atom is lack of 2 electrons.

Answer 1

carbon monoxide (CO) can be viewed as containing one coordinate bond and two "normal" covalent bonds between the carbon atom and the oxygen atom. This highly unusual description illustrates the flexibility of this bonding description. Thus in CO, carbon is the electron acceptor and oxygen is the electron donor.

Answer 2

This is a little known fact but horses, unlike all mamals do not produce methane when farting.. They actually produce carbon monoxide. There is more than just waffle when it comes to the fact that machines power is measured by horses.
This is why.. especially when horses are convalescent or otherwise incarcerated, you find that carbon monoxide is a stable compound.
Hope you appreciate the answer.

Answer 3

CO is stable for a time, when it can it joins with more O2 to form CO2.
It also bonds easily with hemoglobin to form carboxyhemoglobin which is a much more stable compound than oxyhemoglobin, so it blocks the process of delivering O2 to the cells.

Answer 4

You mean carbon dioxide.

Experience has shown its stability.

It is not like Ozone that it breaks down, or like carbon monoxide that it take oxygen and become carbon dioxide.

Answer 5

Carbon monoxide actually looks like this:

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