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Friday, December 25, 2020

How to determine order of bond angle of Me-O-Me, H3Si-O-SiH3 and (ph)3Si-O-Si(Ph) ?

 (1) Oxygen of Me-O-Me is sp3 hybridised so C-O-C bond angle is more than 109’28” approx 110” due to crowding of methyl group.

(2) In disilyl ether , oxygen is Sp2 hybridised and planer due to back bonding between oxygen and silicon atom.  In this back bonding lone pair of oxygen atom donate to the vacant d orbital of silicon atom  due to this fact bond lengths of Si-O is decrease and  increases (approx 140”).

(3) In (Ph)3Si-O-Si(Ph)3  compounds Si-O-Si bond angle is Approx 180 due to back bonding and hybridisation is Sp.


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Nitrogen (N) atom in trimethyl amine [N(CH3)3] is sp3 hybridised and tetrahedral ( bond angle ~107)  due to non bonding electron pair of N is localised (more basic). On the other hand N atom of trisilyl amine [N(SiH3)3] is sp2 hybridised and trigonal planner (bond angle~120).This is due to the participation of non-bondlng pair of N into pπ-dπ back banding. Due to this delocalization of non-bonding electron pair of N in trisilyl amine it is also less basic

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