Example 3 – PCl3F2 molecule . This molecule has TBP geometry, with two F atoms and three Cl atoms as substituents. According to Bent’s rule,

Example 3 – PCl3F2 molecule . This molecule has TBP geometry, with two F atoms and three Cl atoms as substituents. According to Bent’s rule,
After having learned the statement of Bent’s rule in the earlier post, let us now study the rule with some examples. We know that bond angle(θ) ∝ %
In this post, we are going to learn a comparatively new rule, proposed by Henry Bent. Henry Bent (1926-2015) was an American physical chemist who