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[pistolpete007]

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ok AsF4^- is dsp3 and this makes sense because the count the lone pairs

in 54 SO2 is sp2 is this bc the lonepair on the S in cancelled by the +?

 

[pistolpete007]

ne1?

 

[mddang]

(pulled from wiki; lone pairs not shown)

It is sp2 because it's bonded to 2 oxygen atoms and has a lone pair of electrons, so it needs 3 molecular orbitals available to make this happen.

There is one for one oxygen, one for the other oxygen, and one for the lone pair.

An s plus two of the p orbitals gives us sp2.