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Interpretation:
To describe why central atom with four bonding pair and one lone pair will have the lone pair in equatorial rather than in axial location.
Concept introduction:
According to Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR), it will suspect the structure nearly of any molecule or polyatomic ion where central atom is a non-metal and the structure of many molecules and polyatomic ion with the central metal ion. VSEPR is a counting procedure which will predict three-dimensional structures for large compounds whichare not represented by Lewis electron-pair approach.Axial and equatorial terms are referred only for the structures trigonalbipyramidal AX5 and much rarer in the square pyramid, and in some cases of pentagonal bipyramidal AX6E.
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