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Neha Sanghvi
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Please, can someone answer my question? I know the shape of sp hybrid orbital, but want to know about the others ( sp2,sp3,dsp2,dsp3,d2sp3,d3sp3 ). And are there any other type of molecular orbitals?
Well, thanks for everything, but u know d3sp3 does exist. Examples are PCl5, PF5, SbCl5. By the way, yes, your imagination is correct. I found out its shape. It's what you described. Thanks.Gokul43201 said:I've never come across a d3sp3 orbital, but if that were to exist, I would imagine that it would have have 5 lobes pointing out towards the vertices of a regular pentagon centered on the nucleus and the other 2 pointing normal to this plane, one upwards and one downwards. (I wouldn't extend this beyond 5 though; the in-plane angle will become significantly smaller than the out of plane angle, and that wouldn't be very stable).
Neha Sanghvi said:Well, thanks for everything, but u know d3sp3 does exist. Examples are PCl5, PF5, SbCl5. By the way, yes, your imagination is correct. I found out its shape. It's what you described. Thanks.
So, what are molecular orbitals then?