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NEET · Chemistry · STD 11 - 4. Chemical bonding and molecular structure

The outer orbitals of \(C\) in ethene molecule can be considered to be hybridized to give three equivalent \(sp^2\) orbitals. The total number of sigma \((\sigma )\) and pi \((\pi )\) bonds in ethene molecule is

  1. A \(3\) sigma \((\sigma )\) and \(2\) pi \((\pi )\) bonds
  2. B \(4 \) sigma \((\sigma )\) and \(1\) pi \((\pi )\) bonds
  3. C \(5\) sigma \((\sigma )\) and \(1\) pi \((\pi )\) bonds
  4. D \(1\) sigma \((\sigma )\) and \(2\) pi \((\pi )\) bonds.
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(C) \(5\) sigma \((\sigma )\) and \(1\) pi \((\pi )\) bonds

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