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Title: How do you figure out how sigma bonds an atom can have?
Post by: Romenumeral on October 21, 2019, 03:26:49 AM

How do you figure out how  sigma bonds an atom can have?
Has to do with  what group is it into?For example Nitrogen can have 3 because is in group  5 and needs 3 more electrons to have a full valence shell?So it can have sp2 hybridization tops?

Title: Re: How do you figure out how sigma bonds an atom can have?
Post by: AWK on October 21, 2019, 03:45:57 AM

Concerning hybridization - ammonia is not flat - it is pyramidal, and this is not sp² hybridization.

Title: Re: How do you figure out how sigma bonds an atom can have?
Post by: Enthalpy on October 21, 2019, 01:46:15 PM

I suppose Romenumeral considered nitrogen with a double or triple bond.

Title: Re: How do you figure out how sigma bonds an atom can have?
Post by: Babcock_Hall on October 21, 2019, 08:24:58 PM

Romennumeral,

Have you encountered the concept of steric number yet?  This may help with respect to hybridization and geometry.