Cause the two lone pairs in the XeF4 come from the 5s2 and the 5p2 electrons.... and the 5d10 orbital basically gets ignored when it comes to lone pairs.
The error is this... if Xenon was covalently bonded to the flourine atoms... then why would there be two sets of lone pairs? There wouln't.
There would actually only be lone pairs if Xenon was ionically bonded to the four fluorine atoms. This would also prevent a violation of the octet rule.
ALSO It is likely the same case with boron trifluoride, three ionic bonds rather than three covalent bonds. This would also preserve the octet rule.
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Cause the two lone pairs in the XeF4 come from the 5s2 and the 5p2 electrons.... and the 5d10 orbital basically gets ignored when it comes to lone pairs.
havabighed 1 week ago
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havabighed 1 week ago
Although, I admit that its less likely in the case of BF3.... I am fairly certain that ionic bonding is the case in XeF4
havabighed 1 week ago
The error is this... if Xenon was covalently bonded to the flourine atoms... then why would there be two sets of lone pairs? There wouln't.
There would actually only be lone pairs if Xenon was ionically bonded to the four fluorine atoms. This would also prevent a violation of the octet rule.
ALSO It is likely the same case with boron trifluoride, three ionic bonds rather than three covalent bonds. This would also preserve the octet rule.
havabighed 1 week ago
I found an error in your lecture at around the 33:00 mark pertaining to the bonding in xenon tetrafluoride and boron trifluoride.
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@tnguyen318 the study of matter and its changes.
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