Write the hybridisation & structure of carbon in carbocation & carbanion .
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A carbocation forms bonds with three other groups and is positively charged. With three bond pairs and zero lone pairs it has trigonal planar geometry by VSEPR theory, and trigonal planar is characteristic of sp2 hybridisation. ... Therefore, it needs 3 hybridised orbitals, so it is sp2 hybridised.
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The hybridization of carbocation is sp
2
. 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
2
sp2hybridized. Since the fourth pair of electrons is nonexistent, it is impossible to be sp
3
sp3 hybridized.
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