Shape Names

[Wasila Sun 2I]

What is the shape called when there are 2 lone pairs and 2 bonding pairs like H2O? Is "bent" the official shape name?

[Frankie Mele 3J]

Yes, when 2 of 4 possible bonding regions are occupied by lone pairs, the shape is referred to as angular or bent.

[Libby Dillon - 1A]

For H20, there are four regions of electron density, but two are occupied by lone pairs of electrons. This means the other two regions are occupied by bonded electron pairs, which is what we name shaped based off of. The name for this shape is bent or angular when two of four regions of electron density are considered.

[Madisen Brown -1C]

Yep! The shape is known as bent or angular because 2 of the 4 bonding sites are lone pairs and the lone pairs force the bonding electrons closer which decreases the bond angle.

[DMaya_2G]

Angular molecules, which are also called bent or V-shaped have a non-linear shape. For example, a water molecule has two unshared lone pairs and two pairs of bonded electrons.

[Lorraine Jiang 2C]

Yes, the shape of H2O can either be bent or angular.

[Anirudh Mahadev 1G]

Yes, and keep in mind that the shape is also called bent when referencing a molecule with two bonds and one lone pair. For example, Sulfur dioxide would have a trigonal planar electron pair geometry and a bent molecular geometry.

[Aayushi Jani 3A]

Yes, it is called bent as there are two lone pairs of electrons and two pairs of bonded electrons.

[arisawaters2D]

When there are two lone pairs, do we always try to place them at opposite ends, like as far away from each other as possible?

[Morgan Gee 3B]

When there are two lone pairs and two bonded atoms, it is called bent.

[Luveia Pangilinan 1A]

this will be called a bent! :D

[Shrinidhy Srinivas 3L]

To whoever asked, typically when you have two lone pairs, you do try to place them far away from each other as lone pairs repel each other. Hope this helps!

[Catherine Bubser 2C]

Bent or angular can be used interchangeably for this!

[Madison Muggeo 3H]

This will be bent. I'm not sure how to attach a picture on this website, but there are some really good graphics of the VSEPR table with lots of useful information. Once you memorize these tables, it becomes easier :)

[Joshua Eidam 2A]

Like the person above mentions, there are a lot of really great graphics that display all the different shapes based on lone pairs and such. Here is a link to a website with a graphic that I find quite helpful: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/bound ... -geometry/
Hope this helps!

[Sejal Parsi 3K]

Yes, it can be called bent or angular!

[Pranav Daggubati 3C]

The electron structure is tetrahedral, but the molecular structure is bent. Lone pairs count for the first one but not for the second.

[Crystal Pan 2G]

This kind of shape can be called angular or bent.

[Justin Lin 1B]

Any molecule with 2 lone pairs and 2 bonding pairs is called bent. Bent is its official name

[Adam Bustamante 1I]

You're correct, the shape name is bent! It could also be angular, but bent is perfectly acceptable :)

[Jerry_T]

The shape is commonly referred to as either bent or angular. Some examples of this are H2O and NO2- (due to their lone pair(s)).

[Margaret Xu 3C]

Reiterating what people have said before, we can say angular or bent when referring to the shape. I don't think it matters which one we use but I think the textbook refers to it as angular.

[Taber Ball 1F]

What is the shape called when there are 2 lone pairs and 2 bonding pairs like H2O? Is "bent" the official shape name?

Hi! The official name would be bent or angular. An example of this would be H₂O. Here is a link to a chart that I have found very helpful with learning the names of the various shapes.

https://ds055uzetaobb.cloudfront.net/im ... 091b2c.png

Hope that helps!

[derickngo3d]

That is a bent shape.

[Mingzi Yang 1E]

The shape of H2O is bent.

[Carly_Lipschitz_3H]

When there are 2 lone pairs and 2 bonding pairs like H2O, it is called "bent" or "angular".

[Alessia Renna 1D]

yes it would be angular/bent (or AX2E2)

[Ariel Guan 1H]

yes, it is called bent or angular.

[Massimo_Capozza_1G]

Hi I found this website very useful to study molecular geometry

http://intro.chem.okstate.edu/1314F00/Lecture/Chapter10/VSEPR.html

[Neel Bonthala 2G]

Yes, the shape is just called bent. Bent can also result from a molecular geometry of 3 regions of electron density, and one lone pair! The bond angles will be different between these two configurations of the bent shape though.

[Lorraine Medina 3E]

You can use bent or angular for the name. Hope this helps!

[gabbi_r2C]

Yes, bent is the official shape name, no matter whether there are two lone pairs on the central atom or one.

[Jack_Pearce_2H]

usually called bent/v-shaped. I would specifically identify it by saying the AX2E2 general formula has <109.5 degree bond angles and usually rests around 104.5 degrees

[Tiao Tan 3C]

You are correct. It can be called angular or bent.

[Navdha Sharma 3J]

Yes, the shape of the water molecule is bent or angular.

[Becca Nelson 3F]

The shape of the water molecule or any AX2E2 molecule is bent or angular. The electron density distribution is in a tetrahedral shape however.

[Mary Gallo 1G]

Yes, when there are 4 regions of electron density and 2 are bonding then the VSEPR shape can be referred to as bent or angular.

[Eunice_Castro_1G]

Hi! The shape of which you described is called angular or bent.

[Mary Shih 3J]

you can call it bent or angular they're the same

[Brandon Le 3C]

There are a variety of names that are all correct. Some people have already listed them: bent, angular, v-shape, non-linear, etc. All of these are correct and you basically just need to understand the concept behind it.

[105618850]

Yes. The lone pairs are what distinguish bent from linear. I believe the repulsion from the lone pairs results in a bent molecular structure.

[Stacey Phan 2I]

The textbook refers it to angular but bent is also acceptable.

[Lilly Catarozoli 1B]

Bent and angular are the same thing!

[Aria Movassaghi 1A]

Yes, H2O is considered bent.

[Micaela Estavillo]

Yes it would be considered bent.

[DominicMalilay 1F]

It would be angular!

[Karen Elrayes 1L]

It would be considered bent

[nayha a 1E]

This is called a bent shape (:

[AlbertGu_2C]

2 lp and 2 bonds is bent, as well as 2 lp and 1 lp. Hope this helps!

[Diana Aguilar 3H]

The shape would be bent or angular, and you can use either term to describe the shape since they mean the same thing.

[joshtully]

The shape is called "bent."