Discuss the hybridization of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen in a molecule of acetic acid. What is the number of unhybridized atom in this molecule?
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The carbon atom 5 is called an “sp3-hybridized carbon atom.” The overlap of each sp3-hybridized orbital in 5 with the 1s orbital of a hydrogen atom leads to a methane molecule (6). In 6, each of the four carbon-hydrogen bonds is formed by the same overlap: sp3(C)-1s(H).
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