BONDING

1..IN WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING BONDS re not equal

1.SF4 2.SiF4
3.XeF4 4..BF4

GIVE EXPLANATION [2]

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rocky ·

?????

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Pritish Chakraborty ·

Apply VSEPR to find their shapes...except SF4, they are square planar(which means equal bond lengths). Due to lone pair in S, the bond angle decreases.

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govind ·

SF4 -- see-saw shaped compound sp3d hybridisation so it has two kinds of S-F bonds axial and equatorial

XeF4 Square planar sp2d

SiF4 sp3 it's tetrahedral and not square planar

and BF4- also tetrahedral sp3

In square planar compounds hybridisation is sp2d so they involve participation of d-orbitals whereas in tetrahedral compounds hybridisation is sp3 and they do not have participation of d-orbitals..

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Manmay kumar Mohanty ·

square planar compounds hybridisation is not sp2d govind its dsp2 na??

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rvking ·

SF4--->sp3d

SiF4---->sp3

Acc to VSEPR

(6+4)/2=5 and 1 lone pair => see saw shape....here the see saw shape is a bit hindered due to presence of lone pair electrons

XeF4----> sp3d2

acc to VSEPR

(8+4)/2=6 and 2 lone pairs => square planar

BF4- -----> sp3

Acc to VSEPR

(3+4+1)/2=4 and 0 lone pairs => tetrahedral shape

Each angle of tetrahedral = 109.5°

Each Angle of square planar= 90°

Angles of see saw shape = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_tetrafluoride

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