Hybridisation

Hybridization in Carbon Compounds : Hybridization in Carbon Compounds RAKESH TRIKHA

Slide 2 : The electronic configuration of carbon in Ground state 6C: 1s2 2s2 2px1 2py1 2pz0 In excited state :   6C: 1s2 2s1 2px1 2py1 2pz1   There are four half-filled orbitals available for bond formation resulting in the formation of four covalent bonds in this state. However, the four half-filled valence orbitals are not equivalent, there being three p orbitals and one s orbital.

Slide 3 : To account for the equivalence of the four bonds, it is assumed that the four available orbitals of carbon, the 2s and three 2p orbitals are mixed or hybridized in a manner as to result in four equivalent orbitals (hybridization).   Carbon atom can undergo three types of hybridization in its compounds.

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Bonding in CH4 : Bonding in CH4