Identify the wrongly matched pair:

Identify the wrongly matched pair:

${PCl}_{5} - Trigonal planar$
${SF}_{6} - Octahedral$
${BeCl}_{2} - Linear$
${NH}_{3} - Trigonal Pyramidal$

Solution

{PCl}_{5}

has trigonal bipyramidal geometry and not trigonal planar. Hybridisation of central atom is

{sp}^{3} d

Asked in: NEET 2020 (Phase 2)

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