Question

What is the electronic geometry of sbr4? enter the electronic geometry of the molecule?

Answer 1

SBr4 has 4 bonds and 1 lone pair of electrons with a trigonal bipyramidal arrangement with the shape of a seasaw.

Answer 2

The valence electron configuration of sulfur S = 3s²3p⁴

Valence electron configuration of Br = 4s²4p⁵

In SBr4, the central Sulfur (S) atom forms 4 covalent bonds with the 4 bromine (Br) atoms. In addition it has 1 lone pair of electrons.

Since the electron geometry not only considers the bond pairs but the lone pairs as well, in the case of SBr4 this would be trigonal bipyramidal.

(Molecular geometry would only consider the 4 covalent bonds which would lend it a distorted tetrahedral structure)