Could someone explain to me how bond angles work? I'm pretty lost on that..

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anonymous · Answer

hi This is not really such a simple thing to be fully explained here and but not really such a difficult thing too. I hope u know how to write lewis dot structure and complete octet.If u know that u basically have to find number of bond pairs and no of lone pairs present in central atom. Then we apply VSEPR theory which is really a big topic in itself and arrange bond pairs + lone pairs in 3 dimension space such that the repulsion between them is least and then then assign the structure for bond pairs and find angle between them I m giving 2 links which i m sure would help.Please go through it. Its a big topic but simple to understand http://winter.group.shef.ac.uk/vsepr/int... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSEPR_theor... both r good links-2nd one is more advanced ,first one starts from scratch. GOOD LUCK :)cheers

anonymous · Answer

Thank you  so much!