Chemistry 9701 · AS & A Level · Chemical bonding

Chemical bonding — practice question

Arsenic is able to combine with fluorine to make a compound. In this species, the arsenic atom has no lone pair of electrons, and no dative bonds are present. Selenium is also able to combine with fluorine to make a compound. In this species, the selenium atom has no lone pair of electrons, and no dative bonds are present. Which of the compounds have two different bond angles? (For this question, ignore bond angles of $180^\circ$.)

  • Aboth arsenic fluoride and selenium fluoride
  • Barsenic fluoride only
  • Cselenium fluoride only
  • Dneither arsenic fluoride nor selenium fluoride

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