Do you remember the basic shapes? Their bond angles? 3-D depiction of each?
- linear
- trigonal planar
- tetrahedral
- trigonal pyramidal
- angular (bent)
If you answered with a resounding "Yes!" to the above 3 questions and you could picture in your head all of the basic shapes. Good for you!
Maybe one of the links below will refresh your memory some more?
http://www.sparknotes.com/testprep/books/sat2/chemistry/chapter4section8.rhtml
http://www.ausetute.com.au/shapemol.html
They both go beyond our requirements as it also includes trigonal bipyramidal [sp3d] *and octahedral [sp3d2]*. However, the sparknotes site does discuss hybridization - a soon coming-up chem*is*try concept.
[Why is there a brick above the blackboard at the front of the classroom? Does anyone read these little puppies?]
*[What is this sp3d and sp3d2 of which you type? Again does anyone read this stuff and thus ask about it? Hmmm, I wonder?]
