Trigonal Bipyramidal Lone Pair Flashcards
Practice axial and equatorial lone-pair placement, count 90° contacts, and predict molecular shapes in a trigonal bipyramid.
За това тесте
A lone pair on an equatorial site has two 90° neighbors. Move it to an axial site and it has three. These 28 VSEPR flashcards give you practice using that difference to reason about one, two, or three lone pairs in a trigonal bipyramid.
Start by finding the 90° contacts in the ideal five-site model. Then count which contacts involve lone pairs, work backward when the clues narrow down the sites, and compare layouts the way VSEPR does. The cards also ask you to read the molecular shape from the bonded sites and spot shortcuts that give the wrong answer.
This deck assumes you can read a Lewis structure and uses equivalent bonding domains when comparing repulsion. It sticks to five electron domains, so you can focus on placement instead of memorizing a full shape chart. Ideal site angles are for counting and comparing contacts. Predicting measured bond angles or inferring electron geometry from a shape alone takes more information than these exercises provide.
The exercises are original. Chemistry references include UT Austin’s electronic geometry notes and Davidson’s VSEPR model considerations.
Карти в това тесте
Карта 1
Въпрос
In an ideal trigonal bipyramid, which pairs of sites make a 90° angle at the center?
Отговор
Every axial–equatorial pair. The two axial sites are 180° apart, and any two equatorial sites are 120° apart.
Карта 2
Въпрос
In the VSEPR model, which 90° contact is more repulsive, lone pair–lone pair or lone pair–bonding domain?
Отговор
Lone pair–lone pair. A lone pair generally takes up more space around the central atom than a bonding domain.
Карта 3
Въпрос
How many distinct 90° contacts are there across all five sites of an ideal trigonal bipyramid?
Отговор
Six contacts. Pair each of the two axial sites with each of the three equatorial sites.
Карта 4
Въпрос
An ideal trigonal bipyramid has one axial lone pair and four bonding domains. How does swapping the lone pair with an equatorial bond change the number of 90° contacts involving that lone pair?
Отговор
The number drops from three to two. The lone pair had three equatorial neighbors at 90° and now has two axial neighbors at 90°.
Карта 5
Въпрос
In a trigonal bipyramid, the two axial sites and two equatorial sites carry bonds. What is the molecular shape?
Отговор
Seesaw. The bonded atoms occupy two opposite sites and two sites in the equatorial plane. The remaining equatorial site holds the lone pair.
Карта 6
Въпрос
A student counts three 90° neighbors at each axial site and two at each equatorial site. Why does adding those neighbor counts give 12 instead of the number of distinct contacts?
Отговор
Each contact was counted at both ends. Halve 12 to get six distinct 90° contacts.
Карта 7
Въпрос
Two lone pairs occupy equatorial sites in an ideal trigonal bipyramid. How many 90° lone pair–bonding domain contacts are there?
Отговор
Four contacts. Each lone pair makes a 90° contact with both axial bonds.
Карта 8
Въпрос
A bonded site in an ideal trigonal bipyramid has three 90° neighbors. Two of those neighbors hold lone pairs. How many equatorial lone pairs are there?
Отговор
Two equatorial lone pairs. A site with three 90° neighbors is axial, and all three of those neighbors are equatorial.
Карта 9
Въпрос
An ideal trigonal bipyramid has one lone pair. Four of its 90° contacts join two bonding domains. Where is the lone pair?
Отговор
At an equatorial site. Two axial bonds can pair with two equatorial bonds to give four contacts. An axial lone pair would leave only three such contacts.
Карта 10
Въпрос
Two lone pairs in an ideal trigonal bipyramid make zero 90° contacts with each other. What are the two possible arrangements by site type?
Отговор
Both could be axial or both could be equatorial. The first layout puts them 180° apart and the second puts them 120° apart.
Карта 11
Въпрос
An ideal trigonal bipyramid has one axial lone pair and one equatorial lone pair. How many 90° contacts join a lone pair to a bonding domain?
Отговор
Three contacts. The axial lone pair meets two equatorial bonds at 90°. The equatorial lone pair meets one axial bond at 90°.
Карта 12
Въпрос
Why does VSEPR put two lone pairs at equatorial sites in a trigonal bipyramid even though opposite axial sites would put them farther apart?
Отговор
Both layouts avoid a 90° contact between lone pairs. Two equatorial lone pairs make four 90° contacts with bonding domains, compared with six for two axial lone pairs.
Карта 13
Въпрос
In a trigonal bipyramid, bonds occupy both axial sites and just one equatorial site. What is the molecular shape?
Отговор
T-shaped. The axial bonds form the straight part of the T, and the equatorial bond projects sideways.
Карта 14
Въпрос
A student wants to choose the VSEPR arrangement by minimizing the total number of 90° contacts of all kinds in a trigonal bipyramid. Why can't that pick a layout?
Отговор
The total stays at six whichever sites carry lone pairs. Compare the contact types, giving priority to avoiding 90° contacts between two lone pairs.
Карта 15
Въпрос
Exactly two sites in an ideal trigonal bipyramid hold lone pairs. No two bonding domains meet at 90°. What is the lone-pair placement?
Отговор
Both lone pairs are axial. The three bonding domains all lie in the equatorial plane, 120° apart.
Карта 16
Въпрос
For two lone pairs in a trigonal bipyramid, a mixed axial–equatorial layout has three 90° lone pair–bond contacts and one 90° contact between lone pairs. The all-equatorial layout has four 90° lone pair–bond contacts and zero contacts between lone pairs at 90°. Which layout does VSEPR favor?
Отговор
The all-equatorial layout. Avoiding the 90° contact between lone pairs takes priority over saving one 90° lone pair–bond contact.
Карта 17
Въпрос
Start with two equatorial lone pairs in an ideal trigonal bipyramid. Swap one of them with an axial bond. What happens to the number of 90° contacts between two bonding domains?
Отговор
It stays at two. Before the swap, two axial bonds meet one equatorial bond at 90°. After it, one axial bond meets two equatorial bonds at 90°.
Карта 18
Въпрос
With three lone pairs in a trigonal bipyramid, why does VSEPR favor putting all three in the equatorial plane?
Отговор
That is the only layout with zero 90° contacts between lone pairs. Any other three-site layout puts lone pairs in both site types, creating 90° lone pair–lone pair contacts.
Карта 19
Въпрос
An ideal trigonal bipyramid has three lone pairs and exactly one axial bond. What is the angle between the two bonds in that hypothetical layout?
Отговор
90°. The second bond must occupy an equatorial site, so the two bonds use different site types.
Карта 20
Въпрос
In an ideal trigonal bipyramid, three lone pairs occupy one axial site and two equatorial sites. How many 90° lone pair–lone pair contacts do they make?
Отговор
Two contacts. The axial lone pair meets each equatorial lone pair at 90°. The two equatorial lone pairs are 120° apart.
Карта 21
Въпрос
In an ideal trigonal bipyramid, four 90° contacts join two bonding domains and none joins two lone pairs. How many 90° contacts join a lone pair to a bonding domain?
Отговор
Two contacts. There are six distinct 90° contacts altogether, so subtract the four contacts between bonding domains.
Карта 22
Въпрос
Two hypothetical trigonal bipyramids each contain three lone pairs. In one, the two bonds are both equatorial. In the other, one bond is axial and one is equatorial. Which layout has more 90° lone pair–bonding domain contacts?
Отговор
The layout with both bonds equatorial has four, compared with three for the mixed layout. With both bonds equatorial, each meets two axial lone pairs at 90°.
Карта 23
Въпрос
All three equatorial sites of a trigonal bipyramid hold lone pairs. Why do the remaining bonds give a linear molecular shape?
Отговор
The two bonds occupy opposite axial sites, 180° apart. The molecular shape follows the bonded atoms.
Карта 24
Въпрос
A seesaw molecule is modeled by placing one lone pair on an equatorial site. Does the 120° angle between the remaining equatorial sites predict their exact measured bond angle?
Отговор
No. The 120° value comes from the ideal trigonal bipyramid. Real bonding domains can shift when the lone pair repels them.
Карта 25
Въпрос
In an ideal trigonal bipyramid, lone pairs occupy sites P and Q, which are 120° apart. A bond at site R is 90° from both. What type of site is R?
Отговор
Axial. The 120° angle places P and Q in the equatorial plane. Only an axial site makes a 90° angle with both.
Карта 26
Въпрос
An ideal trigonal bipyramid has exactly three lone pairs. Two 90° contacts join lone pairs to each other, and three join lone pairs to bonding domains. How many axial sites hold lone pairs?
Отговор
One axial site holds a lone pair. A layout with two axial lone pairs would also have two 90° contacts between lone pairs, but it would have four 90° lone pair–bonding domain contacts.
Карта 27
Въпрос
A five-domain model shows a lone pair on one equatorial site and bonds on the other four sites. A student calls the molecular shape trigonal bipyramidal because five sites are occupied. What did they count incorrectly?
Отговор
They counted the lone-pair site as part of the molecular shape. All five domains determine the electron geometry, while the four bonded sites give a seesaw molecular shape.
Карта 28
Въпрос
Every 90° contact in an ideal trigonal bipyramid is between a lone pair and a bonding domain. If the total number of lone pairs is unknown, what two layouts fit?
Отговор
Either both axial sites hold lone pairs and all equatorial sites hold bonds, or all three equatorial sites hold lone pairs and both axial sites hold bonds. Each axial–equatorial pair has one site of each kind.
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Trigonal Bipyramidal Lone Pair Flashcards
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