How does hybridization affect shape?
1 Answer
I would say
Explanation:
Electron pairs, bonding or non-bonding, arrange themselves around an atom such that interaction between the electron pairs, bonding and non-bonding, is MINIMIZED. And the geometries that minimize such interactions depend on the number of electron pairs...and assume the shapes of the Platonic solids:
And this is the basis of
But NOTE that we describe molecular geometry on the basis of ATOMS, NOT ELECTRON PAIRS. Water has 2 single