Can VESPR/hybridization be applied to sulfuric acid???
According to VESPR...sulfuric acid should be tetrahedral and therefore sp3 since it is the conformaion that will minimize electron repulsions. Ok...that seems fine and in both cases sulfur seems to be sp3. But how does the sp3 hybridization scheme work in both cases? If you draw out all the hybrid orbitals according to VESPR, and try to see how all relevant orbitals overlap...it doesn't seem to make sense.
Like the first resonance form...by looking at it...O-H (sp3-s)...if that's the case, both remaining sp3 orbitals (of sulfur) have lone pairs...how do you get sigma bonding with the remaining oxygens? Also...where does the partial double bonding occur?? Between the p orbital of oxygen and dxy orbital of sulfur??
Does anybody know of a scheme to make the hybridization and VESPR agree with on another?