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The 35 pages that link to VSEPR theory, each with the reason it gives.

• Molecular geometryRelated: It predicts many molecular geometries by placing electron domains as far apart as possible.

• Lewis structureRelated: Bonding and lone-pair domains in a Lewis structure feed its geometry predictions.

• Tetrahedral molecular geometryRelated: It predicts tetrahedral arrangements when four bonding domains surround the central atom.

• CarbocationRelated: The three-coordinate carbocation center is typically approximately planar.

• Lone pairRelated: Lone pairs repel bonding domains and can compress bond angles.

• Octet ruleRelated: It uses electron-pair arrangements to predict shape, a different question from whether an atom has an octet.

• Bond angleRelated: Its repulsion rules explain how lone pairs and bonding pairs shift angles around a central atom.

• Noble gas compoundRelated: It helps explain the distinct molecular geometries of xenon fluorides.

• Molecular structureRelated: It offers a simple way to predict many common molecular geometries.

• ChlorateRelated: It predicts the approximately trigonal-pyramidal arrangement around chlorate’s chlorine atom.

• Xenon difluorideRelated: It accounts for XeF₂’s linear shape from three lone pairs and two bonding domains.

• OxyanionRelated: It predicts the geometry around many oxyanion central atoms.

• sp² hybridizationRelated: It predicts many trigonal planar shapes without specifying orbital hybridization.

• Trigonal planar molecular geometryRelated: Its repulsion rule predicts 120° separation for three electron domains.

• Xenon tetrafluorideRelated: It predicts the octahedral electron-domain arrangement behind XeF₄’s square-planar shape.

• Hypervalent moleculeRelated: Its shape predictions apply even when Lewis counting gives the central atom more than eight electrons.

• SulfiteRelated: It accounts for sulfite’s trigonal-pyramidal arrangement of sulfur and oxygen atoms.

• Interhalogen compoundRelated: It accounts for the characteristic shapes of polyatomic interhalogen molecules.

• Square planar molecular geometryRelated: Its electron-pair repulsions help explain the preferred arrangement of ligands around a central atom.

• Xenon hexafluorideRelated: It provides a first account of how xenon’s bonding pairs and lone pair shape XeF₆.

• Bent molecular geometryRelated: It predicts bent shapes when lone pairs and bonding pairs arrange to reduce repulsion.

• Krypton difluorideRelated: It predicts the linear molecular shape from krypton’s five electron domains.

• Chlorine trifluorideRelated: It accounts for the T-shaped arrangement of chlorine trifluoride.

• Linear molecular geometryRelated: Its repulsion rules predict 180-degree arrangements when two electron domains surround a central atom.

• PhosphineRelated: It accounts for the pyramidal geometry of many trivalent phosphines.

• Xenon trioxideRelated: It accounts for the trigonal-pyramidal arrangement around xenon.

• Sulfur dichlorideRelated: It accounts for the bent geometry expected around sulfur in SCl₂.