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Chemistry Forums for Students => High School Chemistry Forum => Topic started by: foorium on October 19, 2012, 12:29:48 PM
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The orbital structure is based off of tetrahedral with 1 lone pair therefore it should be 107o but Wikipedia says its 91.7? why is this?
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As you go down the group towards heavier elements, you find that the p-orbitals start participating in the bonding rather than the atomic orbitals getting hybridized.
I don't exactly know what it's called, but I remember having read this under 'Drago's rule' somewhere. But I'm not really sure. Someone please verify this.