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Can you please explain CuSO 4 .5H 2 O through valence bond theory and tell if it possesses square planar geometry or not.

Can you please explain CuSO4.5H2O
through valence bond theory and tell if it possesses square planar geometry or not.

Grade:12th pass

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Arun
25750 Points
5 years ago
 

In CuSO4.5H2O, four water molecules are coordinated to Cu+2, while one is hydrogen bonded with SO42-.

Copper sulfate pentahydrate contains copper(II) in a geometry best described as distorted octahedral. The copper(II) is bound to four water molecules in a square-planar geometry and two oxygen atoms from two sulfate ions (one H2O is H-Bonded here).

This salt dissolves in water to produce the pale-blue [Cu(H2O)6]2+ ion, in which two of the water molecules are less tightly held and have longer bond distances.

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