Bent's rule provides a qualitative estimate as to how these hybridised orbitals should be constructed.
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Results from this approach are usually good, but they can be improved upon by allowing isovalent hybridization, in which the hybridised orbitals may have noninteger and unequal p character.
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They have central angles from 104?to 109.5? where the latter is consistent with a simplistic theory which predicts the tetrahedral symmetry of four sp 3 hybridised orbitals.
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On these concepts, Pauling developed hybridization theory to account for bonds in molecules such as CH 4, in which four sp?hybridised orbitals are overlapped by hydrogen's " 1s " orbital, yielding four sigma ( ? ) bonds.