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  • Sulfur in SF4: Determining Electron Domains & Geometry - Chemistry Help
    The answer is 5

    A step-by-step solution:

    The valence electron configuration of sulfur in its elemental form is 3s23p4. Each fluorine atom contributes one electron to form a bond to sulfur, resulting in a total of 4 + 4 x 7 = 32 electrons in SF4. To determine the electron domain geometry, we must first calculate the steric number, which is the sum of the number of bonded atoms and lone pairs around a central atom. In SF4, the sulfur atom is bonded to four fluorine atoms and has one lone pair, giving it a steric number of 5. This corresponds to a trigonal bipyramidal electron domain geometry.

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