What is the hybridisation and geometry of a carbanion?

sp2, pyramidal

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sp3, pyramidal

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sp3, tetrahedral

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sp2, planar

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Solution

The correct option is B sp3, pyramidal

It is easy to see from the above depiction that a carbanion is sp3 hybridised with 1 lone pair of electrons which makes the geometry pyramidal.

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