How will you say that a compound is planar?

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Kalit Gautam
Apr 21, 2018

A specie is said to be planar if its constituent parts lie on a SAME PLANE. (imaginary plane)

Explanation:

In case of Organic Compounds ; a compound is said to be planar if all the Carbon atoms lie in the same plane.

Eg : Aromatic compounds
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In case of Inorganic Compounds ; there are various types of geometries of the compound in which different-different atoms can lie in a same plane

Eg : In symmetrical compounds like SF_6 which has sp^3d^2 hybridization with octahedral geometry has many planes in which S and F atoms are planar.

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