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pushpa_bhagat
Feb 20, 2011, 11:52 PM

Unknown008
Feb 21, 2011, 08:05 AM
Well, from a theorical view, it's difficult to say...

The angle in bromine pentafluoride is 84.9: Bromine pentafluoride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromine_pentafluoride)

Chlorine being bigger and having more electrons than fluorine I think would repel more and make a larger angle. But unless x-ray crystallography confirms this, I can't say for sure the bond angle.

pushpa_bhagat
Feb 22, 2011, 03:39 AM
Means we can say that approximately it has but not exactly?

Unknown008
Feb 23, 2011, 08:51 AM
That's what I would say, because unless we use the tools we have, we cannot just 'guess' the angle to be dead 90 degrees.