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Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Are all the five bonds of PCl5 equivalent? Justify your answer.

PCl5 has Sp3d hybridisation and trigonal bipiramidal geometry. PCl5 has three equivalent equatorial and two equivalent axial P – Cl bonds. However, due to greater bond pair – bond pair repulsions, the axial P – Cl bonds are longer and hence different from the three equatorial bonds


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