Bond Angles
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Bond Angles
When you have a molecule that is a tetrahedral in respect to the electron geometry but it has 1 lone pair or 2 would we just say the angles are less than 109.5 or would we have to be more specific?
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Re: Bond Angles
In this case I believe having your answer written as <109.5 is fine, my TA usually doesn't require us to be more specific than that unless the problem specifically states such.
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Re: Bond Angles
i was told that when there is one lone pair, the angles between the lone pair and the atom would be >109.5 and the angles between two atoms would be <109.5 .
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Re: Bond Angles
Typically you do not have to be that specific. However, I believe in my section it was said 1 lone pair is more than 109.5 and 2 is less than 109.5 too.
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