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What is the hybridization of Hydrogen Peroxide?


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  1. Hydrogen peroxide H2O2is a molecule where two Oxygen are bonded together and each Oxygen is bonded with one Hydrogen.
  2. Each Oxygen atoms contain two bond pairs and two lone pairs.
  3. The steric number of Hydrogen peroxide H2O2 can be calculated as follows: step1.StericNumber=sumofattachedatom+lonepairsstep2.stericNumber=2+2step3.=4
  4. Thus, in Hydrogen peroxide H2O2 total four hybrid orbitals of sp3 are formed in which wo lone pairs occupy two orbitals one s orbital and one p orbital and the two bond pairs O-HandO-O occupy the other two p orbitals.
  5. The Hydrogen peroxide structure is non-planar.
  6. Thus ,the hybridization of Hydrogen peroxide H2O2 is sp3

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