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Write a hybridization and bonding scheme for each molecule containing more than one interior atom. Indicate the hybridization about each interior atom. Sketch the structure, including overlapping orbitals, and label all bonds using the notation shown in Examples 10.6 and 10.7.
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Step 1.
has a total of valence electrons.
Let us draw the lewis structure by distributing these electrons in this structure so that all the rules are satisfied.
Each carbon atom forms a single bond with three hydrogen atoms and the carbon atom forms a single bond with the other carbon atom and thus completes its octet.
Each carbon atom has four electron domains around it. Hence it has a tetrahedral structure.
And so the hybridization of Carbon atoms in this molecule is hybridization.
Overlapping of hybrid orbitals of carbon atom in this molecule are as shown here:
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