Question

What is the molecular geometry about the antimony atom in the structure below?

[Image description: A Sb atom is singly bound to five Fatoms. There is one electron pair on Sb. Each Fhas
three electron pairs. The molecule as a 2- charge.]
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Answer 1

Square Pyramidal.

Step-by-step explanation:

Because the Sb atom has six electron domains (five bounded and one unbounded), its electron domain geometry is octahedral.

Because one electron domain is unbounded, its molecular geometry is square pyramidal.