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what is ch4 hybridisation?

Hybridisation is the concept of mixing atomic orbitals into new hybrid orbitals (with different energies, shapes, etc., than the actual orbitals hybridising) suitable for the pairing of electrons to form chemical bonds in valence bond theory. Hybridisation describes the bonding atoms from an atom's point of view. That is, for a tetrahedrally coordinated carbon (e.g., methane CH4), the carbon should have 4 orbitals with the correct symmetry to bond to the 4 hydrogen atoms.In CH4, four sp3 hybrid orbitals are overlapped by hydrogen's 1s orbital, yielding four ? (sigma) bonds (that is, four single covalent bonds) of the same length and strength.


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