Question

Question #4a7f5

Answer 1

`sp^3d`

Explanation:

The easiest way to determine this is to draw the lewis structure of the species. What's important here is knowing that the species, `I` can become hypervalent, or that is, it will disobey the octet rule by expanding its valency to accept more than eight electron around it.

Another good example of a species which does this is `XeF_4`.

Consider below:

Remember when forming hybrid orbitals, we always know that we must:

use `n` atomic orbital to make `n` hybrid orbitals

and

for `n=5` we know that we make `sp^3d` hybrids.