Question

in methyl carbocation (+CH3), the carbon is positively charged and is SP2 hybridised. thus the shape of C+H3 may be considered as being derived from overlap of three equivalent SP2 hybridized orbitals. on the basis of of above statement draw the shape of methyl carbocation.​

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The hybridization of carbocation is sp

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. For a carbocation to be formed, the carbon atom must lose one electron. Thus the carbon atom has three bonded pair of electrons and no lone electrons. In CH+3CH3+, for example, the carbon has only three sigma bonds. Thus it is sp

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sp2hybridized. Since the fourth pair of electrons is nonexistent, it is impossible to be sp

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sp3 hybridized.