JEE Advanced Chemistry question

The tetrahedral arrangement of perchlorate ion is due to

(A)Presence of a lone pair of electrons
(B)Trigonal bipyramidal shape of the ion
(C)sp3 hybridisationCorrect
(D)sp2 hybridisation

Answer: (C)

Solution

In ClO4⁻, chlorine forms four equivalent Cl–O bonds with no lone pair remaining on chlorine, corresponding to sp3 hybridisation; four bonded groups with zero lone pairs gives the

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