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NEET 2011 Chemistry question

ChemistryChemical Bonding and Molecular StructureNEET 2011

Which of the two ions from the list given below that have the geometry that is explained by the same hybridization of orbitals, , , , , ?

Answer: (1)

Solution

Hybridisation of the central atom (from steric number): has 2 bond pairs plus 1 lone pair on N, so 3 electron domains and (bent); has 3 bond domains and no lone pair, so (trigonal planar); has 2 bond pairs plus 2 lone pairs, so 4 domains and

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