{"id":197627,"date":"2025-03-07T13:08:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=197627"},"modified":"2025-03-07T13:08:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:08:51","slug":"what-are-the-bond-angles-in-the-following-molecular-model-of-pf5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/07\/what-are-the-bond-angles-in-the-following-molecular-model-of-pf5\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the bond angles in the following molecular model of PF5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What are the bond angles in the following molecular model of PF5?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-530.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197628\"\/><\/figure>\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<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-531.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197629\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Phosphorus pentafluoride (PF\u2085) exhibits a trigonal bipyramidal molecular geometry, which influences its bond angles. In this configuration, three fluorine atoms occupy equatorial positions, forming a plane around the phosphorus atom, while the remaining two fluorine atoms occupy axial positions above and below this plane. This arrangement results in two distinct bond angles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Equatorial-Equatorial Bond Angle:<\/strong> The angle between two fluorine atoms in equatorial positions is approximately 120\u00b0.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Axial-Equatorial Bond Angle:<\/strong> The angle between a fluorine atom in an axial position and one in an equatorial position is approximately 90\u00b0.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These bond angles arise due to the electron pair repulsion described by Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) theory, which predicts the spatial arrangement of atoms in a molecule to minimize electron-electron repulsion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the bond angles in the following molecular model of PF5? The correct answer and explanation is : Phosphorus pentafluoride (PF\u2085) exhibits a trigonal bipyramidal molecular geometry, which influences its bond angles. In this configuration, three fluorine atoms occupy equatorial positions, forming a plane around the phosphorus atom, while the remaining two fluorine atoms [&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-197627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197627","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=197627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}