What is the name of the hybrid orbitals used by phosphorus in PCl3? Express your answer in condensed form in order of increasing orbital energy
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2017-11-18T12:35:07-0500
Phosphorus's ground state configuration is 1s^2 2s^2 2p^6 3s^2 3p^3. In PCl3 there is a lone pair on P and 3 bonds, so sp3 hybridisation is needed (the 3s23p13p13p1 orbitals produce 4 sp3 hybrid obitals, one of which is a lone pair and the other 3 are half filled and bond to Cl). The fourth sp3 hybrid orbital on P is a doubly occupied non-bonding orbital.
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