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What is the orbital hybridization in BrCl3?
Br has 7 valence electrons.
of these electrons are used to form 3 bonds with Cl
Remaining 4 electrons are present as 2 lone pairs
So,
there are 5 electron domain around Br (3 bonds and 2 lone pairs)
So,
hybridisation is: sp3d
Answer: sp3d