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Chemistry Forums for Students => Inorganic Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: lakshan on May 22, 2004, 11:54:52 AM

Title: geometric shapes of interhalogen compounds
Post by: lakshan on May 22, 2004, 11:54:52 AM

Is there a method to find the geometric shapes of interhalogen compounds such as ICl2 ICL4 ?

Can anyone give a text from a recommended book or suggest a site to learn about this ?

Title: Re:geometric shapes of interhalogen compounds
Post by: AWK on May 22, 2004, 12:05:52 PM

Read on VSEPR theory

AWK

Title: Re:geometric shapes of interhalogen compounds
Post by: Donaldson Tan on May 22, 2004, 01:59:36 PM

This website is from Purdue University. Hope it will enlighten u on Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) theory, to learn how to predict molecular shapes based on the molecular electronic configuration.

http://www.chem.purdue.edu/gchelp/vsepr/