Molecular Structure: VSEPR: Triangle-based shapes (AXnEm, n+m=3)
Arrangement of Electron Pairs | AX3 | AX2E |
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Triangle |
Bent |
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SO3 | SO2 | |
All these geometries were theoretically found at the DFT-B3LYP level of theory (6-31G(d,p) basis sets for light atoms and Stuttgart ECPs for the heaviest ones)
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