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CUET · CHEMISTRY · PYQ PAPER 2025

Nitrogen in trimethylamine is \No Solution(\mathrm{sp}^3\) hybridized. The C-N-C bond angle is \(108^{\circ}\). The geometry of trimethylamine is

  1. A Tetrahedral
  2. B Trigonal bipyramidal
  3. C Square planar
  4. D Pyramidal
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(D) Pyramidal

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Nitrogen has 3 bonding pairs (to C atoms) and 1 lone pair. Total electron domains: 4. Electron geometry: Tetrahedral. Molecular geometry (3 bonding pairs, 1 lone pair): Pyramidal.