Question

What do I need to know about hybridisation
besides this...

Answer 1

It's the mixing of 2 or more non-equivalent atomic orbitals to produce a set of equivalent hybrid orbitals

Answer 2

@Somy

Answer 3

yeah that is right

Answer 4

ok..

Answer 5

do u know how it happens tho?

Answer 6

Nt very sure..

Answer 7

Can u explain

Answer 8

did you read your book?

Answer 9

sharing of unpaired electrons

Answer 10

something like that

Answer 11

did they not show u the pictures?

Answer 12

my understanding is like this..

Answer 13

hmm its not really like that

Answer 14

when bond is formed frm higher energy level..

Answer 15

i need to leave soon, so leave the question open and keep bumping it up
if no one explains you while im gone, then i'll explain ok?

Answer 16

the electron are not of equivalent energy

Answer 17

so, hybridisation must occur

Answer 18

okay

Answer 19

its more about excited state and ground state
while im gone read about Sp3 and Sp2 hybridization
if you understand on your own- then we will do a short review
if you don't get it then i'll explain step by step
ok?

Answer 20

hybridization is what allows the O in H2O to have 2 lone pairs and 2 bonds and is also what makes carbon compounds exist.

Basically if the atom cannot satisfy the octet rule using bonds alone without loosing electrons and thus getting a positive formal charge it needs to have hybrid orbitals. This not only occurs between S and P orbitals but also between S and D orbitals, P and D orbitals, and S, P, and D orbitals in nonmetals that have D orbitals. Thus some atom might have in a particular molecule SP3D5 hybridization just to give you an example.

Answer 21

u there now?

Answer 22

@somy

Answer 23

alright

Answer 24

Mixing of atomic orbitals of different shape and energy to give a new molecular orbitals of same shape and energy is called hybridization.

Answer 25

ok

Answer 26

ok

Answer 27

i will straightaway start with example
we'll do several of them
we'll do for CH4, NH3 and H2O for Sp3

Answer 28

right so
Sp3 hybridization of CH4

Answer 29

write electronic configuration of C
also draw those boxes with arrows representing electron

Answer 30

btw here you will actually see the reason WHY C has 4 bonds :)

Answer 31

C=2.4
1s^2 2s^2 2p^2

Answer 32

like this