What is the Hybridization of carbon in ethene?
Correct answer: A. sp2
- A. sp2
- B. sp3
- C. sp
- D. None of these
Explanation
The sp2 hybridization is the mixing of one s and two p atomic orbitals, which involves the promotion of one electron in the s orbital to one of the 2p atomic orbitals. Thus hybridization of ethene molecules is sp2. The ethene molecule is CH2 =CH2. The C atom has 3 bonding domains and 0 lone pairs of electrons. It undergoes sp2 hybridization which results in planar geometry.
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