Which oxygen will form a better hydrogen bond?


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According to me , the one in peroxide will form the stronger H bond as the O here being less electronegative will be more willing to donate lone pair to an incoming dipole .




Electronegativity is a property of the element. All oxygens are equally electronegative, so your line of reasoning is not correct.


A better argument would probably involve looking at the $\alpha$ effect and how lone pairs on vicinal atoms destabilize each other (generally used to justify why the peroxide oxygen-oxygen bond is weak). One might imagine then that each oxygen could form a stronger hydrogen bond, since this would help to stabilize the repulsion.


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