Question

what is the hybridization of carbon in C02

Answer 1

do you mean that What is the hybridization of the carbon atom in carbon dioxide?
right

Answer 2

yes

Answer 3

is it sp2

Answer 4

There are two carbon oxygen pi bonds in carbon dioxide. These must come from seperate (unhybridized) p orbitals.
so its a double bonded carbon atom so its sp2 hybridized.

Answer 5

how do you know what an atom hybridizes into?

Answer 6

The remaining p orbital hybridizes with the s orbital to form an sp hybrid. This sp hybrid has two lobes which form sigma bonds to the oxygen molecules on either side of the molecule.

The remaining pi bonds to the oxygens are formed by overlap of the unhybridized p orbitals of the carbons with p orbitals of the oxygens.

Answer 7

okay and would the oxygens be sp2 also?

Answer 8

incidentally, the photoelectron spectrum of a ketone, which measures electron energies, better agrees with the no-hybrids at O scheme. The two O LPs have different energies, which is not what sp2 at O predicts.

Answer 9

oh so they don't hybridize

Answer 10

yaa they can't

Answer 11

ok @ArkGoLucky

Answer 12

okay thanks for the help

Answer 13

welcome

Answer 14

Are you sure? CO2 is a linear molecule. I would have thought hybridisation was sp.

Answer 15

The remaining 2 non hybridised p orbitals for the 2 double bonds with either of the oxygen atoms.

Oxygen atoms are sp² hybridised.