What type of hybridization is present in the carbon atoms of alkenes?
Correct Answer: sp2 hybridization
- Step 1: Understand what alkenes are. Alkenes are hydrocarbons that contain at least one double bond between carbon atoms.
- Step 2: Identify the structure of carbon atoms. Each carbon atom has four valence electrons and can form four bonds.
- Step 3: Recognize that in alkenes, one of the bonds between carbon atoms is a double bond.
- Step 4: Know that hybridization is a way to describe how atomic orbitals mix to form new hybrid orbitals for bonding.
- Step 5: For a double bond, one bond is a sigma bond and the other is a pi bond. The sigma bond involves sp2 hybridization.
- Step 6: Conclude that since alkenes have a double bond, the carbon atoms involved in the double bond are sp2 hybridized.
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