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The electron geometry of the bonds and lone pairs around the oxygen is water is?
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Why is the electron geometry of a water tetrahedral while molecular geometry is V shaped?
Oxygen has 6 electrons in its outer shell but attains 8 when it bonds with the two hydrogen atoms in a water molecule. This makes 4 pairs of two. Theelectron geometry is therefore a tetrahedral (4 apices). Because the two hydrogens are attached to two of these apices they form a V shape.
Does CO2 have linear geometry?
Yes it appears as O=C=O this is a result of C having 4 covalent bonds and Oxygen having 2
What is the molecular geometry if you have 3 single bonds and 1 lone pair around the central atom?
Trigonal Pyramidal
What is the difference between the arrangement of electron pairs and the shape of the molecules?
The shape of a molecule only describes the arrangement of bonds around a central atom. The arrangement of electron pairs describes how both the bonding and nonbonding electron pair are arranged. For example, in its molecular shape, a water molecule is describes as bent, with two hydrogen atoms bonded to an oxygen atom. However, the arrangement of electron pairs around the oxygen atom is tetrahedral as there are two bonding pairs (shared with the hydrogen) and also two nonbonding pairs.
What is the electronic geometry of methane?
All of the hydrogens on methane are evenly spaced apart at 109.5 degree bonds. This makes the geometry tetrahedral.
What is the electron geometry of OF2?
Electron geometry for this is tetrahedral. There are two O-F single bonds, which makes 2 electron groups. There are two lone pairs around oxygen, which make up the last two electron groups. Molecules with four electron groups has a tetrahedral Electron geometry.
Describe the role of each of the following in predicting molecular geometries a unshared electron pairs by double bonds?
Lone electron pairs give the geometry a triangular base, while double bonds make the molecular geometry bent or angular.
What is the molecular geometry for CH3I?
Since there is 4 electron domains which are all single bonds without any lone pairs, the molecular geometry is tetrahedral.
What is the electronic geometry for CS2?
The electron-pair geometry of CS2 is linear because the Lewis structure is S=C=S. Double bonds act as one electron pair to help determine electron-pair geometries of molecules according to VESPR theory
Why is the electron geometry of a water tetrahedral while molecular geometry is V shaped?
Oxygen has 6 electrons in its outer shell but attains 8 when it bonds with the two hydrogen atoms in a water molecule. This makes 4 pairs of two. Theelectron geometry is therefore a tetrahedral (4 apices). Because the two hydrogens are attached to two of these apices they form a V shape.
How many chemical bonds can oxygen make?
Without hybridization, oxygen has a valence electron configuration of 2s22p4. Which means it has 2 unpaired electrons; therefore it can form 2 bonds.
What happens as electron bonds fall toward oxygen?
A polarized covalent bond is formed , as in water .
Is water a non-polar solvent?
No, water is a polar solvent because of the polar oxygen-hydrogen bonds and the geometry of the compound.
What is the electron pair geometry for CO2?
It is a linear molecule, carbon atom forms two double bonds at an angle of 180o O=C=O
Does PCl4 have resonance structures?
I would imagine it has a tetrahedral geometry since the Cl atoms are quite large in size, thus electron replusion is high, so adopts a geometry that gives the largest angle between the C-Cl bonds.
What is the molecular geometry of bhf2?
It's trigonal planar, with Boron in the middle and sigle bonds to Hydrogen and both Fluorines. Note that Boron is an electron-deficient atom (it DOES NOT follow octet) and this is why it only makes three bonds
Why SO2 polar but SO3 is non polar?
SO2 has a bent molecular geometry such that you can say there is an oxygen end and a Sulfur end in the molecule. Because of this, the pull that the oxygen atoms exert on the electrons results in a net dipole moment. By contrast SO3 has a trigonal planar geometry. The oxygen atoms are arranged in a perfectly symmetrical arrangement around the central sulfur atom. As a result, the polarities of the 3 sulfur-oxygen bonds cancel each other out.
