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NEET 2008
Exam
NEET
Year
2008
Subject
Chemistry
Chapter
General Organic Chemistry

NEET 2008 · Chemistry · General Organic Chemistry

The correct order of increasing bond angles in the following...

The correct order of increasing bond angles in the following triatomic species is

Options

  1. ANO2−<NO2+<NO2\mathrm{NO}_2^{-} < \mathrm{NO}_2^{+} < \mathrm{NO}_2
  2. BNO2−<NO2<NO2+\mathrm{NO}_2^{-} < \mathrm{NO}_2 < \mathrm{NO}_2^{+}
  3. CNO2+<NO2<NO2−\mathrm{NO}_2^{+} < \mathrm{NO}_2 < \mathrm{NO}_2^{-}
  4. DNO2+<NO2−<NO2\mathrm{NO}_2^{+} < \mathrm{NO}_2^{-} < \mathrm{NO}_2

Correct answer

B. NO2−<NO2<NO2+\mathrm{NO}_2^{-} < \mathrm{NO}_2 < \mathrm{NO}_2^{+}

Step-by-step solution

Key Idea : As the number of lone pair of electrons increases, bond angle decreases. NO2+\mathrm{NO}_2^{+} ion is isoelectronic with CO2\mathrm{CO}_2 molecule. It is a linear ion and its central atom (N+)\left(\mathrm{N}^{+}\right) undergoes sps p-hybridisation, hence bond angle is 180∘180^{{}^{\circ}}. In NO2−\mathrm{NO}_2^{-} ion, N\mathrm{N}-atom undergoes sp2s p^2 hybridisation. The angle between hybrid orbital should be 120∘120^{{}^{\circ}} but one lone pair of electrons is lying on N\mathrm{N}-atom, hence bond angle decreases to 115∘115^{{}^{\circ}}. In NO2\mathrm{NO}_2 molecule, N\mathrm{N}-atom has one unpaired electron in sp2s p^2-hybrid orbital. The bond angle should be 120∘120^{{}^{\circ}} but actually it is 132∘132^{{}^{\circ}}. It may be due to one unpaired electron in sp2−hybridorbital.Therefore,theincreasingorderofs p^2-hybrid orbital. Therefore, the increasing order ofbond angles is : \underset{\left(115^{{}^{\circ}}\right)}{\mathrm{NO}_{2}^{-}} < \underset{\left(132^{{}^{\circ}}\right)}{\mathrm{NO}_2 } < \underset{\left(180^{{}^{\circ}}\right)}{\mathrm{NO}_{+}^{+}}
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