Let's Study Chemical Bonding & Molecular Structures! Part 1.

Chemistry Level 2

What is the shape of XeO 2 F 2 ? \text{XeO}_{ 2 }\text{F}_{ 2 }?

Trigonal Bipyramidal Square Planar Tetrahedral See - Saw

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2 solutions

Ram Gautam
Jan 3, 2015
  • The number of bond pairs is 4 and the number of lone pairs is 1

  • 4 + 1 = 5

  • The hybridisation Of X e O 2 F 2 Xe{ O }_{ 2 }{ F }_{ 2 } will be s p 3 d s{ p }^{ 3 }d

  • Hence, the shape will be See - Saw

It's ,see-saw, because after drawing the Lewis structure and determining the best one based on formal charges, the xenon atom is left with one lone pair, two double bonds to the oxygen atoms, and two single bonds to the two fluorine atoms. This is a total of 5 electron domains and 4 different atoms, consistent with the AX4E formula of the see-saw molecular geometry.

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