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Q.

Which of the following species have undistorted octahedral structures?

(P) SF6 (Q) PF6 (R) SiF62(S) XeF6

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a

P, R and S

b

R and S

c

Q and R

d

P, Q and S

answer is C.

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Detailed Solution

XeF6​ has a distorted octahedral structure due to the presence of one lone pair of electrons on the Xe atom. PF6−​ and SiF62−​ have undistorted octahedral structures. 

P, Q, R have perfect octahedral shape. So, correct code is Q and R.

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