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Q.Give reasons for the need of hybridisation.
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Step 1. The valency problem. Be's ground state (), B's () and C's () have far fewer unpaired electrons than their known valencies of 2, 3 and 4 respectively — plain valence bond overlap of unhybridized orbitals cannot explain how they form that many bonds.
Step 2. The equivalence problem. Even where an atom's unpaired-electron count matches its valency, unhybridized s and p orbitals differ in shape and energy, so a naive picture predicts non-identical bonds — yet, e.g., all four C-H bonds in methane are experimentally found to have identical length, strength and bond angle. …
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