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Organic Chemistry – Some Basic Principles And Techniques

Question
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How many types of hybridisations occur in a carbon atom?

Solution

Carbon undergoes three types of hybridisations:
(i) sp3 in saturated compounds,
(ii) sp2 in all unsaturated compounds containing a double bond,
(iii) sp in all unsaturated compounds containing a triple bond.