{"id":182946,"date":"2025-01-15T08:32:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T08:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=182946"},"modified":"2025-01-15T08:32:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T08:32:39","slug":"the-central-atom-in-ici","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/15\/the-central-atom-in-ici\/","title":{"rendered":"The central atom in ICI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Question 7 1 pts The central atom in ICI, ion has [Select] bonding groups of electrons and [Select] *lone pairs of electrons. The electron geometry of the ion is [Select] and the molecular geometry is [Select] \u25bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\"><strong>The Correct Answer and Explanation is :<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The central atom in the <strong>ICl\u2084\u207b<\/strong> ion has <strong>five bonding groups of electrons<\/strong> and <strong>one lone pair of electrons<\/strong>. The electron geometry of the ion is <strong>octahedral<\/strong>, and the molecular geometry is <strong>square pyramidal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Central Atom<\/strong>: The central atom in <strong>ICl\u2084\u207b<\/strong> is iodine (I), which belongs to Group 17 of the periodic table. In the ion <strong>ICl\u2084\u207b<\/strong>, iodine forms bonds with four chlorine (Cl) atoms and carries a negative charge. We can deduce the bonding and lone pairs from its electron configuration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Bonding Groups and Lone Pairs<\/strong>: In <strong>ICl\u2084\u207b<\/strong>, iodine is surrounded by four chlorine atoms, and there is one lone pair of electrons on the iodine atom. Since iodine is in Group 17, it can form multiple bonds, and its valence shell can accommodate more than eight electrons. The four bonding groups come from the four I-Cl bonds, and the lone pair corresponds to the single lone pair of electrons that iodine retains.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Electron Geometry<\/strong>: The electron geometry considers the total number of electron groups around the central atom, which includes both bonding pairs and lone pairs. In the case of <strong>ICl\u2084\u207b<\/strong>, there are a total of five electron groups: four bonding groups (from the I-Cl bonds) and one lone pair. The arrangement of these five electron groups forms an <strong>octahedral geometry<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Molecular Geometry<\/strong>: The molecular geometry focuses on the positions of the atoms, excluding lone pairs. Since one of the positions in the octahedral geometry is occupied by a lone pair, the geometry of the ion is distorted into a <strong>square pyramidal<\/strong> shape, where the iodine atom is at the center, and the four chlorine atoms are positioned at the corners of a square, with the lone pair affecting the geometry slightly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>In summary, the <strong>ICl\u2084\u207b<\/strong> ion has five electron groups (four bonding groups and one lone pair), resulting in an electron geometry of <strong>octahedral<\/strong> and a molecular geometry of <strong>square pyramidal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question 7 1 pts The central atom in ICI, ion has [Select] bonding groups of electrons and [Select] *lone pairs of electrons. The electron geometry of the ion is [Select] and the molecular geometry is [Select] \u25bc The Correct Answer and Explanation is : The central atom in the ICl\u2084\u207b ion has five bonding groups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}