The concept of hybridisation has been introduced to explain the shapes of molecules. It involves the intermixing of two or more atomic orbitals belonging to same atom but in or more atomic orbitals beloging to sasme atom but in different sub-shells so as to intermix and redistibute energies to from equivalent orbitals called hybrid orbitals.Depending upon toh enumber and nature of the orbitals involved, the hybridisation may be divided into sp (linear), `sp^(2)` (trigonal), `sp^(3)` (tetrahedral), `sp^(3)d` (trigonal bipyramidal), `sp^(3)d^(3)` (octahedral) and `sp^(3)d^(3)` (pentagonal bipyramidal) types. it may be noted that the orbitals of isolated atoms never hybridise and they do so at the time of bond formation.
The hybridisation of phostphorus in `PCOl_(3)` is the same as:

Options

A. P in `PCl_(3)`
B. S in `SF_(4)`
C. Cl in `ClF_(3)`
D. B in `BCl_(3).`

Answer

A

Explanation

in both, P is `sp^(3)` hybridised.