Multiple choice

Which of the following hybridisations leads to regular tetrahedral structure?

  1. 'sp' hybridisation

  2. sp2 hybridisation

  3. sp3 hybridisation

  4. sp3d2 hybridisation
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Explanation

In this hybridisation, one '2s' and three '2p' orbitals present in the valence shell of the excited carbon atom get hybridised to give rise to four new orbitals of equivalent energies. Each sp3 hybrid orbital is an average of one '2s' orbital and three '2p' orbitals having one fourth 's' character and three fourth 'p' character. 

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