The drawing below shows the overlap of two hybrid orbitals to form a bond in a hydrocarbon. (a) Which of the following types of bonds is being formed: (i) C¬C s, (ii) C¬C p, or (iii) C¬H s?

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Hi everyone here we have a question telling us that a bond forming orbital overlap is shown in the following figure. Which of the following bonds can be formed A chlorine chlorine sigma, be carbon, oxygen, pi, C, carbon carbon pipe or D carbon chloride sigma. The diagram shows a set of sp three orbital's overlapping here with a p orbital. One atom must be a carbon atom and the overlap is head to head, so it is a sigma bond. And if we look at our answer choices, the only choice we have where there is a sigma bond and there is one carbon atom is D. So our answer here is the carbon chlorine sigma. Thank you for watching. Bye.