Inorganic Chemistry
Chemistry
Level
2
What better reason to explain why the axial connections in are greater than the equatorial?
Repulsion of electrons due to the angle of the link
Because of the presence of the phosphorus
orbitals
Because of its geomtria bipyramidal trigonal, which assumes that your links are so
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1 solution
Because the angle of the equatorial link be greater is evident that the distance between the repulsion chlorine atoms will be lower , since the axial atoms the angle is only 90 then the length will have to be larger to reward the electronic repulsion