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Topic: How do you figure out how sigma bonds an atom can have?  (Read 1056 times)

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Offline Romenumeral

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How do you figure out how sigma bonds an atom can have?
« 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?
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Re: How do you figure out how sigma bonds an atom can have?
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2019, 03:45:57 AM »
Concerning hybridization - ammonia is not flat - it is pyramidal, and this is not sp2 hybridization.
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Re: How do you figure out how sigma bonds an atom can have?
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2019, 01:46:15 PM »
I suppose Romenumeral considered nitrogen with a double or triple bond.
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Re: How do you figure out how sigma bonds an atom can have?
« Reply #3 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.
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