Electron pair geometry, predicting

Predicting which hybrid orbitals are I—I being used relies on correctly determining the electron-pair geometry. 

Again, the tetrahedral electron-pair geometry is predicted (Line 6). The molecular geometry is bent (or angular) (Fig. 13.5[c]). 

The six preceding paragraphs and their summary in Table 13.2 make you ready to sketch three-dimensional representations and predict some electron-pair and molecular geometries around a central atom. There are three basic ball-and-stick representations, based on the three electron-pair geometries we have introduced. We will follow these conventions, which are illustrated in Figure 13.6 ... 

Predict the electron-pair geometry and shape of a molecule of dichlorine oxide, CI2O. Draw a ball-and-stick representation of the molecule. 

Questions 19 through 30 For each molecule or ion, or for the atom specified in a molecule or ion, write the Lewis diagram, then describe (a) the electron-pair geometry and (b) the molecular geometry predicted by the valence shell electron-pair repulsion theory. Also sketch the three-dimensional ball-and-stick representation of each molecule or ion in Questions 19-22. 

Valence shell electron pair repulsion (VSEPR) model (Section 110) Method for predicting the shape of a molecule based on the notion that electron pairs surrounding a central atom repel one another Four electron pairs will arrange them selves in a tetrahedral geometry three will assume a trigo nal planar geometry and two electron pairs will adopt a linear arrangement... 

The major features of molecular geometry can be predicted on the basis of a quite simple principle—electron-pair repulsion. This principle is the essence of the valence-shell electron-pair repulsion (VSEPR) model, first suggested by N. V. Sidgwick and H. M. Powell in 1940. It was developed and expanded later by R. J. Gillespie and R. S. Nyholm. According to the VSEPR model, the valence electron pairs surrounding an atom repel one another. Consequently, the orbitals containing those electron pairs are oriented to be as far apart as possible. 

Figure 7.5 (page 177) shows the geometries predicted by the VSEPR model for molecules of the types AX2 to AX. The geometries for two and three electron pairs are those associated with species in which the central atom has less than an octet of electrons. Molecules of this type include BeF2 (in the gas state) and BF3, which have the Lewis structures shown below ... 

In many molecules and polyatomic ions, one or more of the electron pairs around the central atom are unshared. The VSEPR model is readily extended to predict the geometries of these species. In general—... 

Geometries of molecules such as these can be predicted by the VSEPR model The results are shown in Figure 7.8 (page 181). The structures listed include those of all types of molecules having five or six electron pairs around the central atom, one or more of which may be unshared. Note that—... 

In Chapter 7, we used valence bond theory to explain bonding in molecules. It accounts, at least qualitatively, for the stability of the covalent bond in terms of the overlap of atomic orbitals. By invoking hybridization, valence bond theory can account for the molecular geometries predicted by electron-pair repulsion. Where Lewis structures are inadequate, as in S02, the concept of resonance allows us to explain the observed properties. 

VSEPR model Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion model, used to predict molecular geometry states that electron pairs around a central atom tend to be as far apart as possible, 180-182... 

Now that we know how to determine hybridization states, we need to know the geometry of each of the three hybridization states. One simple theory explains it all. This theory is called the valence shell electron pair repulsion theory (VSEPR). Stated simply, all orbitals containing electrons in the outermost shell (the valence shell) want to get as far apart from each other as possible. This one simple idea is all you need to predict the geometry around an atom. First, let s apply the theory to the three types of hybridized orbitals. 

There are some unique structural aspects of some of the sulfur fluorides that will need to be discussed in order to understand the 19F NMR spectra. The geometry of tetracoordinate group VI compounds is predicted on the basis of Gillespie s electron-pair repulsion theory to be trigonal bipyramid, with an electron pair occupying one of the equatorial sites.2 Thus, the SF3 substituent as well as the molecule SF4 have structures as depicted in Scheme 7.12, with nonequivalent (axial and equatorial) fluorines, and thus their 19F NMR spectra consist of two 19F signals, with the fluorines being coupled if the system is scrupulously dry. 

For AX molecules with no lone pairs in the valence shell of A, both the VSEPR model and the LCP model predict the same geometries, namely AX2 linear, AX3 equilateral triangular, AX4 tetrahedral, AX5 trigonal bipyramidal, and AX octahedral. Indeed Bent s tangent sphere model can be used equally as a model of the packing of spherical electron pair domains and as a model of the close packing of spherical ligands around the core of the central atom. 

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