Are Lone Pairs in Hybrid Orbitals? sp2 confusion!

This lesson discusses how to figure out if lone pairs of electrons are in hybrid orbitals or p-orbitals. This relates heavily to resonance and aromaticity lectures.
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Thanks for the feedback. There will be an aromatic course with more detail on this coming out this fall.

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Uhh I have a doubt sir, We say that Nitro is Sp2 when it's lone pair are in resonance. Okay I get it. And we say that the lone pair is in unhybridised P orbital. But how? N has five electrons. 2 in S orbital , 3 in p orbitals (1 in each). When the Nitrogen is SP2 hybridised then s orbital and P orbital(except one) are mixed and each can form one sigma bond. BUT how did that P unhybridised orbital gets 2electrons. If Only S had 2.

[@ChemComplete]

Nitrogen has 5 valence electrons. To be sp2, you make 3 hybrid orbitals, each containing one electron. The remaining 2 electrons (for a total of 5) are left in a p-orbital to participate in resonance (pi and nonbonding electron delocalization).

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Where is the lone pair present in phenyl carbanion ?

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What if the atom (ex. N) with the lone pair is in a ring with one bond being a double bond and the other bond being one place away from a double bond? Would that make the lone pairs sp2 or part of the p-orbital?

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Please explain pyridine lone pair hybridisation

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Thank you so much man! I spent too many hours looking for the correct explanation on this regarding lone pairs and resonance forms. There are so many videos out there disregarding the situation altogether!

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I have a doubt sir that is ,will sp2 hybrid Nitrogen participate in resonance than sp3 hybrid in a ring structure???

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Hey you really cleared most of my doubts. Just one thing to ask, if we have an anion in which lone pairs is in sp3 orbitals and another anion having in sp or sp2 then which one would be more stable anion?

[@ChemComplete]

What a great question! Anions are excess negative charge and in general are better supported by lower sp hybrids. So sp is more beneficial than sp2. The reason behind this is that sp is 50% s and 50% p in nature while sp2 is 33.3% s and 66.7% p. The more s nature a hybrid has, the closer the anion is to the nucleus, and the more stable the anion.

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Hello sir I m still confused, in case of nitrogen lone pair is present in S-orbital then how that lone pair is available for pi bonding while there is also sp2 hybridization,s ..still confusing.. please clear this concept...waiting for your kind response sir...

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I always treated lone pair electrons as sort of being able to “un-hybridize”, and I am always confused by it. Thanks.

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It obvious that water is linear bc having 3 points such as two hydrogen and one oxygen there is no way to be tetrahedral where 5 points are required (CH4).

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Sir, phenol should be antiaromatic since it has 8 pi electrons as the lone pair of electrons in oxygen are involved in resonance.. But why it is aromatic?. Can you explain?

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Thank you for this video. So would the lone pairs on the carbonyl oxygen in an ester occupy an sp^2 and a p orbital?

[@ChemComplete]

They can, if the ester is involved in resonance or an aromatic system.

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When you were explaining about the aromatic structure, do we not take note about the stability of the structure?

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So glad it cleared it up, this is definitely a confusing subject. Unfortunately many professor seem to skip over it or not explain it in detail.

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Unless the p orbital is already occupied as in pyridine, in which case the lone pair can't participate in resonance and must be part of the hybridized orbitals, right?

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isn't N in NH2 supposed to be an sp3 because it has 4 groups accompanied with it which is carbon, one lone pair at the top, and two hydrogens?

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Could you please how d orbital involve in resonance even their energy is different from p

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Sir when I get an idea when will lone pair will be in p orbital or in hybrid orbital???

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Yes I am in Ochem 2 and learning about aromaticity rules. I was the student you described throughout your video confused as heck about why the lone pairs in pyridine are in hybridized orbitals and the ones in pyrrole in unhybridized pure p orbitals! Wish I found you two wasted hours ago!

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Glad it was helpful! Hope your studies go well.

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What to do where there are two lone pairs on an atom and those lone pairs are one space away from a pi bond. Plzzz reply

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one should note that the canonical structure dont exist in reality, only hybrids do

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It was helpful but can u also help with hybridisation of carbocations and carboanions in cyclic cpds

[@ChemComplete]

Carbocations are almost always exclusively sp2 hybrids. Carbanions can vary as they contain pairs similar to the nitrogen and oxygen examples. In the case of carbanions it follows the same rule discussed here...can it partake in resonance and add stability (aromaticity).

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