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Example Question #854 : Ap Chemistry
What is the molecular shape of ?
Trigonal pyramidal
Tetrahedral
Octahedral
Trigonal bipyramidal
Trigonal planar
Trigonal pyramidal
NH3 is trigonal pyramidal because it has 4 electron domains, one of them being a lone pair of electrons and the other three being H atoms. When this is arranged in a three-dimensional space, it is trigonal pyramidal in shape.
Example Question #12 : Vsepr And Bond Hybridization
What is the bond angle in the following structure?
COH2
CO2H is trigonal planar, so the bond angles will be 120 only.
Example Question #11 : Vsepr And Bond Hybridization
What is/are the approximate bond angle(s) in the following molecule?
COH2
90, 120
90, 109.5
180
120
109.5
120
COH2:
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H—C—H
This is a trigonal planar molecule, which only has bond angles of 120o
Example Question #12 : Vsepr And Bond Hybridization
Consider the following reactions that lead to the production of dichloromethane, :
What is the Cl-Cl bond angle of the product, dichloromethane?
None of the available answers.
has four bonding regions and no lone pairs, so it has a tetrahedral geometry. The bond angles between all of the bonded atoms is .
Example Question #12 : Vsepr And Bond Hybridization
What are the flourine-flourine bond angles in ?
has three bonds and one lone pair, so it has a tetrahedral geometry with a trigonal pyramidal shape. Due to its shape, the bond angles are .
Example Question #14 : Vsepr And Bond Hybridization
Which of the following molecules has the largest bond angle between atoms?
In a compound, the atoms (and electron lone pairs) will be as far away from each other as possible due to the repulsive forces between electrons.
Methane will have a tetrahedral geometry with bond angles of 109.5o. Both ammonia and water have lone electron pairs, which will decrease the bond angle between atoms. Water will be bent, while ammonia will be trigonal pyramidal. Bent and trigonal pyramidal are both permutations of tetrahedral, with slightly decreased bond angles.
does not have lone electron pairs and will have a trigonal planar geometry. This results in bond angles of 120o. As a result, has the largest bond angles out of the options.
Example Question #13 : Vsepr And Bond Hybridization
What are the bond angles in a molecule of ?
The molecule has multiple bond angle measures
The carbon in the molecule is hybridized and contains no lone pairs attached to it. This will give the molecule a tetrahedral geometry, standard of a central atom with four single bonds. Bond angles in a tetrahedral molecule are all .
Example Question #14 : Vsepr And Bond Hybridization
Rank the following compounds in order of increasing bond angle:
, , , ,
If there are multiple bond angles in a single molecule, only consider the smaller bond angle
has two bonding regions and no lone pairs around the central atom, so it has a linear geometry, so its bond angle is .
has four bonding regions and no lone pairs around the central atom, so it has a tetrahedral geometry with bond angles of .
has six bonding regions and no lone pairs around the central atom, so it has an octahedral geometry with bond angles of and . For the sake of ranking, we will only consider the smaller angle.
has three bonding regions and one lone pair around the central atom, so it has a trigonal pyramidal geometry with bond angles of .
has three bonding regions and no lone pairs around the central atom, so it has a trigonal planar geometry with bond angles of .
Example Question #15 : Vsepr And Bond Hybridization
Consider the following reaction, called the Sabatier reaction:
What are the molecular geometries of the products?
Tetrahedral and bent
Square planar and bent
Square planar and linear
Tetrahedral and linear
Tetrahedral and tetrahedral
Tetrahedral and bent
has four bonding regions and no lone pairs, so it has a tetrahedral geometry. has two bonding regions, but it also has two lone pairs, so it has a bent geometry.
Example Question #18 : Vsepr And Bond Hybridization
What is the hybridization state of the central atom in ?
According to hybrid orbital bonding theories, the hybridization state will use a number of orbitals equal to the steric number. The steric number is the number of atoms bonding to the central atom, plus any additional lone pairs.
Nitrogen (N) is the central atom because hydrogen atoms are never central.
Nitrogen has 5 valence electrons, and in , it is bonded with 3 hydrogen atoms, which each borrow one of nitrogen's electrons to create a covalent bond. Subtracting those 3 borrowed electrons from its original 5 leaves 2 left, or 1 lone pair.
In total, the nitrogen atom has 3 bonds and 1 lone pair for a steric number of 4. As a result, its hybridization state must use 4 orbitals. The lowest energy way to do that is to use the lowest energy orbitals that are available. In this case, those are the s and p orbitals. So it uses one s and three p orbitals, giving the sp3 hybridization state.
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