organic chemistry - What is the hybridization of chlorine in vinyl chloride?

Saturday, 14 March 2015

organic chemistry - What is the hybridization of chlorine in vinyl chloride?

Is chlorine in vinyl chloride sp² or sp³ hybridized?

Calculating using steric number it is found to be sp³ hybridized. But according to I. L. Finar^* it is sp².

^*I.L. Finar: Organic chemistry Vol.1 Fundamental principles. Sixth Edition. Orient Longmans: 1973. Page 328.

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