CHMB41H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bent Molecular Geometry, Trigonal Pyramidal Molecular Geometry, Trigonal Planar Molecular Geometry
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Hybridization of carbon containing molecules such as methane, ethane which - simplest carbon containing compounds with 3 diff hybridization of sp, sp2 and sp3. Its not only natural carbon containing molecules that can undergo hybridization. Anions, cations and radicals also have hybridization. Same way we had hybridization with carbon we can have it with other atoms like nitrogen and oxygen. In this case, there is a tetrahedral molecular geometry and bond angle is 109. 5 instead of 107. 3. Ex: water: oxygen is in the same row as nitrogen and carbon, it undergoes hybridization, tetrahedral electron group geometry and bent molecular geometry. All of these are from group 7 hence have 7 valence electrons. If you draw it out we have only one half empty orbital. They hybridize and they make a sp3 hybridization. You have only one single paired electron orbital so you can make one covalent bond with h atoms.
