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Explain about the structure of methanol. |
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Answer» Solution :(i) In METHANOL, one of the sps hybridised orbital of oxygen linearly overlap with the sp3 hybridised orbital of CARBON to Torm a C-O, `sigma` bond and another `sp^3` hybridised orbital linearly overlap with ls orbital of hydrogen atom to FORM a O - H`sigma` bond. (II)  (iii)The remaining two `sp^3` hybridised orbitals of oxygen are occupied by two LONE pairs of electrons. Due to the lone pair - lone pair repulsion, the C-O-H bond angle in methanol is reduced to `108.9^@` from the regular tetrahedral bond angle of `109.5^@`. |
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