Chemistry, asked by vajjalakiran1990, 1 year ago

In water molecule outermost electronic configuration have only 2 unpaired electrons are there but shows sp3 hybridization instead of sp2 in h2o explain

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Answered by GeN21
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Hello.

The formula for hybridization is:-

H=(V+M-C+A)/2
where v= valence electrons of central atom, m is the number of MONOVALENT atoms C is cationic charge and A is anionic charge.


By this formula, for H2O, H=(6+2)/2=4.

6 valence electrons in o2 and 2 MONOVALENT H atoms.

H comes out to be sp3.

Hence it depends not on the number of valence electrons left in an ionic compound.
I would highly recommend using this formula for all your hybridization problems.
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