What are the bond angles of #PF_3Cl_2?#

1 Answer
Apr 17, 2018

Well, reasonably, you gots a trigonal bipyramidal geometry...

Explanation:

And so for such a #EX_5# structure there are #3xx/_X-E-X=120^@#, i.e. for the equatorial #X# ligands, and #1xx/_X-E-X=180^@#.

Of course, an #EX_5# structure, is conformationally mobile, and the axial and equatorial ligands undergo facile exchange.