JEE Advanced 2007Paper 1
- Exam
- JEE Advanced
- Year
- 2007
- Paper
- Paper 1
- Subject
- Chemistry
- Chapter
- p Block Elements (Group 15, 16, 17 & 18)
JEE Advanced 2007 · Paper 1 · Chemistry · p Block Elements (Group 15, 16, 17 & 18)
Paragraph: The noble gases have closed-shell electronic...
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The noble gases have closed-shell electronic configuration and are monoatomic gases under normal conditions. The low boiling points of the lighter noble gases are due to weak dispersion forces between the atoms and the absence of other interatomic interactions.
The direct reaction of xenon with fluorine leads to a series of compounds with oxidation numbers and reacts violently with water to give . The compounds of xenon exhibit rich stereochemistry and their geometries can be deduced considering the total number of electron pairs in the valence shell.Question:
The structure of is
Options
- Alinear
- Bplanar
- Cpyramidal
- D-shaped
Correct answer
C. pyramidal
Step-by-step solution
total pairs -hybridisation pyramidal shape.