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Ch.8 - Covalent Compounds: Bonding Theories and Molecular Structure

Chapter 8, Problem 61

What spatial arrangement of charge clouds corresponds to each of the following kinds of hybridization? (a) sp3

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Hello everyone in this video, we want to determine the geometry of the electron cloud and an sp hybridized atom. So if we have sp hybridization, this means that we have to electronic groups and this can only be a linear geometry, so linear electron geometry, and that's because we have this S. P orbital. So here we have choices between linear tribunal planner, tetra hydro tribunal by parameter and october federal. But we already said that because we have two groups, we have a linear electron geometry. Therefore our final answer for this problem is going to be a linear.