A molecule has four unshared electrons on the central atom and four chlorine atoms bonded to the central atom. What is its molecular shape and its hybridization?

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Noe Santos

Chemistry

15 September, 16:50

A molecule has four unshared electrons on the central atom and four chlorine atoms bonded to the central atom. What is its molecular shape and its hybridization?

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Judd · Answer 1

Hybridization is the chemist's attempt to explain the observed molecular shape by constructing HAOs with the appropriate inter orbital angels. A molecule adopts its most stable shape all by itself, then the chemist calculated what HAOs correspond to the shape. There is a One-to One correspondence between shape and hybridization.