WHAT IS SEF4 structure
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Explanation:
The way to determine the molecular geometry of SeF4 is to first draw the Lewis Dot Structure. I can’t draw it out on the website, but if you were to do so you would see that Selenium Tetraflouride has 4 bonding pairs of elections and 1 lone pair. If you look at a chart, you’ll see that when we have 5 electron groups and 1 of them is a lone pair, that the shape is actually a seesaw, not a trigonal bipyramidal.
Here’s a picture of the Lewis Dot Structure I found online:
Again, to find the shape, simple count up all the electron pairs around the central atom, including the lone pair. (Selenium breaks the octet rule.) There are a total of 5 electron pairs. One of those pairs is a lone pair, meaning that the electrons are not bonded with anything else. Those are the two dots on top. So, with that knowledge that there are 5 pairs, and 1 lone pair, you look at that chart I linked and see that the shape is a seesaw.
