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What is the bond angle of SiCl2O?

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OCl2 has a bond angle of 110. This is because the oxygen has 2 bonded pairs and 2 unbonded/lone pairs. To minimize electron repulsion they more apart as far as possible which creates a bent shaped molecule.

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silicon oxychloride is the most popular name for this. This is a very obscure area of chemistry- not a lot is known about halosiloxanes. Molecular SiOCl2 probably does not exist., there are various reports of polymeric forms with four coordinate Si- so a reasonable guess would be that these contain tetrahedral sp3 silicon with a bond angle of 109.5.

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Its bond angle will be somewhat more obtuse than the similarly structured water molecule, because of chlorine's large number of unbonded electron pairs. Perhaps 108 degrees or so. However, it will not exceed 109.5 because that's a tetrahedral bond angle, and sulfur's electron domain geometry is tetrahedral.

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103 degrees and it is a bent angle. It is less than tetrahedral as the lone pairs repel more than bonding pairs (VSEPR theory)

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The angle has 103 degrees.

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