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Q. Which type of hybridization of Xe is involved in $XeOF_{4}$ molecule?

NTA AbhyasNTA Abhyas 2020Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

Solution:

The Lewis structure of $XeOF_{6}$ is

Solution

The orientation of six electron pairs is octahedral. To accomodate six electron pairs in octahedral, we require six hybrid orbitals, which are obtained, if Xe atom is $sp^{3}d^{2}$ -hybridized.