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A qualitative model that predicts many main-group geometries by arranging valence-shell electron domains to reduce repulsions.
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VSEPR can provide a limited qualitative geometry model for some coordination environments, but ligand-field, steric, covalent, electronic, and relativistic effects often dominate transition-metal complexes.
The target is a model, idealization, restricted ansatz, approximation scheme, phenomenological fit, or historical representation used for the source system or theory. It need not have a universal small error parameter and is not thereby a controlled limit or effective theory. The edge label and detail must identify the precise status.
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This is an authored directed relation from the source endpoint to the target endpoint.
VSEPR predicts many main-group shapes from electron-domain arrangements but is not a universal electronic-structure theory.
A theory, law, or interaction describes the behavior of the target within a stated regime. The edge detail must state important limits or qualifications.
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