Chemical Bonding - Result Question 56

####31. The type of hybrid orbitals used by the chlorine atom in ClO2is

(1992, 1M)

(a) sp3

(b) sp2

(c) sp

(d) None of these

(1989, 1M)

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Solution:

  1. OCl¨=O

electron pairs at Cl=2(σ-bonds )+2 (lone-pairs) =4

Hybridisation at Cl=sp3



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