Chapter 8, Problem 8.63SP

Interpretation Introduction

Interpretation:

Spatial arrangement of charge cloud corresponds to given hybridization should be determined.

Concept introduction:

• Hybridization is the idea of mixing atomic orbitals in a new hybrid orbital (with unlike shapes, energies, etc., compared with the constituent atomic orbitals) appropriate for the mixing of electrons to form chemical bonds in valence bond theory.

Given:

  ${\text{sp}}^{\text{3}}$

  ${\text{sp}}^{\text{2}}$

  $\text{sp}$