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Molecular Geometry Overview Sheet

This document provides a chart that relates the number of bonding groups and lone pair electrons on the central atom to the electron-pair geometry, molecular geometry, and bond angles. It shows that the electron-pair geometry and molecular geometry can be determined from the central atom's bonding groups and lone pair electrons, and the types of bond angles that result from different electron-pair geometries.

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Molecular Geometry Overview Sheet

This document provides a chart that relates the number of bonding groups and lone pair electrons on the central atom to the electron-pair geometry, molecular geometry, and bond angles. It shows that the electron-pair geometry and molecular geometry can be determined from the central atom's bonding groups and lone pair electrons, and the types of bond angles that result from different electron-pair geometries.

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Geometry sheet (this will help…A LOT)

# of bonding groups
# of lone pair electrons
(paired electrons) on Electron-pair Molecular Bond
on 'central' atom
'central' atom Geometry Geometry Angle
0 2 linear linear 180
trigonal
0 3 trigonal planar 120
planar
1 2 trigonal planar bent less than 120
0 4 tetrahedral tetrahedral 109.5
trigonal less than
1 3 tetrahedral
pyramidal 109.5
less than
2 2 tetrahedral bent
109.5
trigonal trigonal 90, 120 and
0 5
bipyramidal bipyramidal 180
trigonal 90, 120 and
1 4 seesaw
bipyramidal 180
trigonal
2 3 T-shaped 90 and 180
bipyramidal
trigonal
3 2 linear 180
bipyramidal
0 6 octahedral octrahedral 90 and 180
square
1 5 octahedral 90 and 180
pyramidal
square
2 4 octahedral 90 and 180
planar

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