What is the hybridisation of carbon in ethene?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. sp²
- Step 1: Each carbon forms three sigma bonds in a plane and one pi bond.
Answer
sp².
Why not the others: sp, sp³ and sp³d do not fit.
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