JEE Main 2018 — Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure Question with Solution

Hybridization in Chemistry is defined as the concept of mixing two atomic orbitals to give rise to a new type of hybridized orbitals. This intermixing usually results in the formation of hybrid orbitals having entirely different energies, shapes, etc. The atomic orbitals of the same energy level mainly take part in hybridization. However, both fully filled and half-filled orbitals can also take part in this process, provided they have equal energy.

Here, ${\mathrm{BF}}_3$ has ${\mathrm{sp}}^2$ hybridisation while ${\mathrm{BF}}_4^{-}$ has ${\mathrm{sp}}^3$ hybridisation.