Okay so I read in a book that for hybrid orbitals...
sp - linear
sp
2 - trigonal
sp
3 - tetrahedral
So which one is water considered? The shape of water is bent, right? is there any exception to this rule thing where sp could be like i don't know, trigonal?
I didn't really understand hybridization at all.
exerpt from hybridization notes:
"NOTES: Hybridization
When atomic orbitals hybridize, two or more orbitals blend together and create new types of orbitals that did not exist before.
Example: Be in BeCl2 , the Be has initially 2s2 valence electrons.
• One of the s electrons gets “promoted” to one of the p orbitals.
• Atom now has two unpaired electrons but with different energies.
• The 2s and the 2p combine to create two new orbitals that have equal energies, sp (1 s + 1p)"
^ i don't get the part where it says "one of the s electrons gets promoted to one of the p orbtals." how does that happen? and why?
the notes were so confusing...